Reception Supervisor

Reception Supervisor will oversee the day-to-day management of the reception and administrative functions within Ormskirk House Surgery, also performing the role of Care Navigator. The role will ensure smooth patient flow, excellent patient care, and efficient front and back office operations. The postholder is responsible for supervising the Care Navigation staff, managing rotas and reporting to the Practice Manager and GP Partners to maintain service excellence.

Job description and person specification - Ormskirk House Surgery

**Job title** Reception Supervisor

**Line manager** Practice Manager

**Accountable to** Practice Manager/GP Partners

**Hours per week** 37

**Job summary**

**Generic responsibilities**

All staff at this organisation have a duty to conform to the following:
**Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I)**

A good attitude and positive action towards Equality Diversity & Inclusion creates an environment where all individuals are able to achieve their full potential. Creating such an environment is important for three reasons: it improves operational effectiveness, it is morally the right thing to do and it is required by law.

**Safety, Health, Environment and Fire (SHEF)**

This organisation is committed to supporting and promoting opportunities for staff to maintain their health, wellbeing and safety.

The post holder is to manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients and monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.

All personnel have a duty to take reasonable care of health and safety at work for themselves, their team and others, and to cooperate with employers to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements.

All personnel are to comply with the:

- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974,
- Environmental Protection Act 1990,
- Environment Act 1995,
- Fire Precautions (workplace) Regulations 1999
- Coronavirus Act 2020
- Other statutory legislation which may be brought to the post holder’s attention.

**Confidentiality**

This organisation is committed to maintaining an outstanding confidential service. Patients entrust and permit us to collect and retain sensitive information relating to their health and other matters pertaining to their care. They do so in confidence and have a right to expect that all staff will always respect their privacy and maintain confidentiality.

It is essential, if the legal requirements are to be met and the trust of our patients is to be retained, that all staff protect patient information and provide a confidential service.

**Quality and Continuous Improvement (CI)**

To preserve and improve the quality of our output, all personnel are required to think not only of what they do, but of how they achieve it. By continually re-examining our processes, we will be able to develop and improve the overall effectiveness of the way we work. The responsibility for this rests with everyone working within the practice to look for opportunities to improve quality and share good practice and to discuss, highlight and work with the team to create opportunities to improve patient care.

At this organisation, we continually strive to improve work processes that deliver healthcare with improved results across all areas of our service provision. We promote a culture of continuous improvement where everyone counts and staff are permitted to make suggestions and contributions to improve our service delivery and enhance patient care.

Staff should interpret national strategies and policies into local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice.

All staff are to contribute to investigations and root cause analyses whilst participating in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews.

**Induction**

We will provide a full induction programme and management will support you throughout the process.

**Learning and development**

The effective use of training and development is fundamental in ensuring that all staff are equipped with the appropriate skills, knowledge, attitude and competences to perform their role. All staff will be required to partake in and complete mandatory training as directed. It is an expectation for the post holder to assess their own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate

The post holder will undertake mentorship for team members, and disseminate learning and information gained to other team members, to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g., courses and conferences).

The post holder will provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning.

**Collaborative working**

All staff are to recognise the significance of collaborative working and underst