Patient Pathway Supervisor

2 weeks ago


Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Working in a demanding but rewarding environment our Patient Pathway Supervisor ensures that we provide the best service to our patients.

You will need to be passionate about patient care and customer service. This role will support and provide day to day line management of staff.

You will support patients with booking appointments. Ensuring all clinic outcomes are recorded in an efficient and timely manner, notifying G.P.s and/or other referrers into the service of patient D.N.A.s (did not attends). To retrieve and prepare clinic letters, ensuring relevant patient documentation is available for some outpatient clinics.

You should possess previous experience working in a customer facing environment preferably within the NHS, possess basic keyboard skills, good organisational and excellent communication skills.

Register patients on Trust IT systems ensuring accurate and timely inputting of information.

This role is responsible for arranging appointments with patients and will therefore spend a large amount of time speaking with patients and negotiating appointments.

Manage electronic referrals as per trust policy

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
- Check GP referral letters and register patients on Medway and CAB where necessary.
- To be aware of the 18 week RTTP Target and the Trust and patient’s responsibilities therein.
- Submit referrals for assessment and make new outpatient appointments as prioritised by the Consultants.
- Telephone patients to negotiate appointments, or print and send partial booking letters as appropriate.
- Manage all electronic referrals as Trust policy

For full details please see attached job description and person specification



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