Patient Pathway Coordinator/medical Secretary

3 days ago


Canterbury, United Kingdom East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital for a Patient Pathway Coordinator/ Medical Secretary post within the Stroke department at East Kent Hospitals. This post is for 37.5 hours a week.

Previous NHS experience desirable.

Proactively co-ordinate patients through their treatment pathway ensuring a smooth process and compliance to National Cancer waiting time standards, National RTT compliance standard, diagnostic standards and any internal targets.

Provide comprehensive administrative, clerical and audio typing support to consultants and their teams.

Monitor new patient referrals to Consultant workflow and escalate where necessary.

Support the Operational Managers in achieving utilisation targets for outpatient clinics and timely recording of clinical outcomes.

Act as key point of contact on behalf of the department and the Trust and deal effectively and courteously with all enquiries from consultant and clinical teams, Operational Managers, GPs, patients, other departments within the Trust and all other departments, as well as external providers.

Organise own work schedule, adapt the schedule as required to meet commitments to others within the agreed timescales and, where this is not achievable, give notification promptly with reasons to line manager.

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people.

Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: ‘People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’.

We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called ‘We care’. It’s about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We’re looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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