Job overview

To provide efficient secretarial duties to relevant Clinicians and provide cross cover within the Obs & Gynae Team as per Service needs. To work together and collaboratively as part of a Team. To type letters and make sure correspondence and referrals are sent over to relevant parties per time and effectively cross communicate with relevant Team. To facilitate patient’s pathways and make sure they get booked into clinics per time. To find sooner appointments for long waiters to avoid 52 weeks breaches. To actively work on the Gynae waiting list weekly, to facilitate pathways and avoid breaches for own Clinicians patients. To monitor Clinicians clinic and ensure full clinic utilisation, and to escalate any issue to Line Manager. 

This is an office based position.

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Main duties of the job

To coordinate effectively with our Hysteroscopy Lead Nurse and book patients into clinics accordingly, by prioritising our long waiters and ensuring each patient won't breach their pathway and also by prioritising any urgent requests. To send letters confirmation and leaflet to our patients prior to appointment date, to type letters & send correspondence to GP & patients. To be the point of contact between patients and Service. To work on the Gynae PTL weekly, ensuring patients won't breach their pathways, facilitating patient's pathways & prioritising our long waiters when populating clinics.

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton.  Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

 

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.