Patient Experience Officer

4 weeks ago


Preston, United Kingdom NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (125) Full time

Job summary

Providing a Patient Experience service to patients, their families and unpaid carers across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Main duties of the job

Handle a caseload of formal complaints, correspondence from our local Members of Parliament and contribute to our PALS service.

You will hold a caseload of complaint cases, MP correspondence and enquiries across our health and care services.

About us

The Lancashire and South Cumbria (LSC) Integrated Care Board (ICB) was established as a new statutory body on 1 July 2022, replacing the eight clinical commissioning groups across LSC.

Our role is to join up health and care services, improve people's health and wellbeing, and make sure everyone has equal access to services and gets a positive experience from treatment. We also oversee how money and resource is used to make sure health services are effective, consistent and of a high standard.

Our Patient Experience Team deal with complaints, correspondence from local MPs and Patient Advice Liaison Service (PALS) enquiries.

We are a patient focussed, busy and welcoming team. In recent months we have come together as a single, unified service offering a Patient Experience function to our local population.

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Be part of a high-quality and effective Patient Experience service, working in accordance with legislation, policy, guidance, and best practice.

2. Provide a high quality and professional service, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail in all aspects of the role. Specifically, to work efficiently and fairly with all parties to complaints. This includes patients, complainants, their families, and representatives. Equally, it applies to people who have been complained about in all NHS settings.

3. Engage in projects and working groups to improve, develop and promote the Patient Experience Team.

4. Ensure that KPIs and deadlines are met, managing complaints through to resolution within nationally and locally defined timescales.

5. Organise your workload, using judgment to prioritise tasks. You will co-ordinate activities with other team members, balancing all aspects of the role, reviewing and changing priorities to achieve personal and team objectives.

6. Assess the risk of complaints and identify any which are potentially serious and take appropriate action to inform senior colleagues promptly.

7. Carry out or co-ordinate complaint investigations where required. Arrange and attend conciliation meetings as appropriate.

8. Work in a professional way with a range of services both internally and externally.

9. Communicate clearly using a range of mechanisms and use negotiating skills to achieve the desired outcome in situations which are often complex and sensitive, such as when undertaking complaint investigations or attending conciliation meetings. Includes maintaining tact and diplomacy when there are barriers to understanding, such as when dealing with people who are displaying challenging behaviour.

10. Work with the ICBs policies and procedures, including the Complaints Policy. Work in accordance with our approach to quality and performance with a focus on producing prompt and high-quality responses.

11. Identify and propose changes to policy and process which would support service improvements.

12. Assist in developing performance and quality reports for internal and external audiences.

13. Ensure appropriate use of all physical assets you are responsible for including computer equipment.

14. Demonstrate their future role to new staff and contribute to training about Patient Experience.

15. Work on your own initiative and operate autonomously.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in health and care Experience of handling and responding to complaints Attention to detail

Desirable

Experience of handling and responding to complaints in the NHS or social care.

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to a degree level in a relevant subject, or equivalent level of experience.

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