Pals & Complaints Officer

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Complaints and PALS Team as a PALS and Complaints Officer in our PALS office at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Reporting to the PALS and Complaints Manager, the post-holder will work within the PALS Team and closely with all of the relevant stakeholders to provide a seamless PALS to patients and visitors across the Trust.

The post holder is accountable to the Deputy Director of Governance and Clinical Quality but reports to the PALS/Complaints Manger.

The post holder will respond to compliments, concerns and complaints relating to services offered by Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust. The post holder will ensure that all cases are managed in a sensitive and timely manner through close working with clinical and non-clinical staff across the Trust.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

As an organisation, we’ve made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of “Good” in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of “Good” that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust’s improvement journey, as we’ve stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We’ve also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.

To act as a facilitator in relation to the concerns and comments of patients, clients, their carers and relatives relating to Trust services and negotiating solutions on behalf of the service user.

To record in writing telephone calls and meetings with service users, carers and the public.

To empower service users, carers and the public and facilitate choice by providing information and signposting to other relevant services.

Build and maintain good relationships with clinical and non-clinical staff across the Trust.

Build and maintain good relationships with key stakeholders and the local community

Participate in community outreach work to publicise the role of the PALS/Complaints department.

Act autonomously on a day to day basis, referring to the PALS/Complaints Manager as required.

To co-ordinate implementation of service user and carer feedback mechanisms

To ensure that systems are in place to communicate key issues PALS/Complaints service to those outside the Trust

To ensure that all Trust staff are aware and informed of the key functions and purpose of PALS and Complaints Department

To be knowledgeable of and able to advise service users on the principal issues in delivery of Community Health Services.

To organise / co-ordinate / attend relevant meetings, representing the team and disseminating information as appropriate.

To maintain the PALS database and ensure that data is entered accurately, in accordance with agreed deadlines.

Produce reports for Directorates/Departments as and when requested.

Provide information to Trust staff on the PALS Unit function



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