Reception Services Coordinator

1 month ago


Cheshire, United Kingdom Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Working Full time : hours per week

You will contribute and commit to promoting a positive team-based attitude, striving for the highest standards of service in order to lead the Reception Team and deliver excellent support to the Department and Management Team. The post holder will be accountable to the Head of Records and Reception Services.

You will be responsible for dealing with all rotas, training, sickness absence, data quality and first-line management relating to the Department. The role requiring you to have excellent customer service skills and attention to detail. You will need to communicate effectively, taking the appropriate action when needed when taking dealing with complains, analysing the situation and surroundings.

Main duties of the job

You will ensure that all staff are appropriately trained and competences are assessed. You will be proactive in the training and promotion of data quality and excellent customer service. You will deal with complaints and concerns from patients, assisting in directly them to the appropriate service. You will be responsible in maintaining a good understanding of the Trust Patient Access Policy and RTT procedures associated with outpatient appointments and admissions, liaising with other teams as necessary and ensuring all appointments are dealt with appropriately.

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds. Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility. Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

Job description

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to GCSE Level or equivalent Business Admin/Customer Services NVQ Level 3 or Equivalent

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Advanced keyboard skills IT literate. Knowledge/proficiency in the use of varied computer programmes (Excel. Word & Outlook ) Supervisory Experience Previous NHS clerical experience

Desirable

Previous NHS reception and/or switchboard experience

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