Job summary
- Main area
- Endoscopy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent: Monday-Friday 08-4, 9-5 or 10-6
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7412205
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex Hospital
- Town
- Edmonton
- Salary
- £29,179 Per Annum Including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Endoscopy Patient Pathway officer
NHS AfC: Band 2
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic adaptable candidate to the role of Endoscopy patient pathway Officer to give a high level of administrative support within the Endoscopy Department.
The post holder will carry out a range of specified activities in the support of Outpatients Clinics centralised services, providing efficient clinical administrative and clerical support in line with service requirements. The post holder will also provide a quality reception service for all users of the Outpatient-based services and the Trust.
The post holder will possess transferable skills in all areas of clinical administrative and clerical functions to enable them to support the patient pathway and to increase resilience across the Clinical Administrative and Clerical services
Main duties of the job
1. Booking in of patients attending Endoscopy including: - Booking all patients onto the
computer system, making sure that all patient details are correct - Providing patients with
the necessary documentation for pre-assessment appointments. - Adding patients to
appropriate Endoscopy waiting lists
2. To aid the nursing staff in relevant non-clinical duties.
3. To undertake a full range of administrative duties to meet service delivery priorities and
commitments. - Filing test results in patient notes - Ensuring notes and referrals are
available for day case procedures - Ensuring notes and referrals are available for pre assessment clinic.
4. To respond as appropriate to enquiries from staff, general practices, and general. Provide
non-clinical advice and information to the general public.
5. Ensure adequate stocks of stationery are maintained and any faulty equipment is reported promptly.
6. Follow the policies and procedures of the Endoscopy Department.
7. Making waiting lists and clinic appointments on the Electronic Patient Record System.
8. To collect urgently requested Medical notes.
Planning and Organization
• To report any service or performance shortfalls to the Service Manager and work as part of the team to address and resolve any issues.
Training Responsibilities
• To ensure completion of mandatory training
• To undertake any additional training as required.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Booking in of patients attending Endoscopy including: - Booking all patients onto the
computer system, making sure that all patient details are correct - Providing patients with
the necessary documentation for pre-assessment appointments. - Adding patients to
appropriate Endoscopy waiting lists
2. To aid the nursing staff in relevant non-clinical duties.
3. To undertake a full range of administrative duties to meet service delivery priorities and
commitments. - Filing test results in patient notes - Ensuring notes and referrals are
available for day case procedures - Ensuring notes and referrals are available for preassessment clinic. - Receiving of internal mail and posting of external mail - Printing of ID
labels.
4. To respond as appropriate to enquiries from staff, general practices, and general. Provide
non-clinical advice and information to the general public.
5. Ensure adequate stocks of stationery are maintained and any faulty equipment is
reported promptly.
6. Follow the policies and procedures of the Endoscopy Department.
7. Making waiting lists and clinic appointments on the Electronic Patient Record System.
8. To collect urgently requested Medical notes.
Financial / Budgetary Management
• Ensure appropriate link worker bookings are made and cancelled if no longer
required
Planning and Organization
• To report any service or performance shortfalls to the Service Manager and work
as part of the team to address and resolve any issues.
After several years of ever closer working, North Mid and Royal Free London are planning to come together as one organisation to enable them to go further and faster in improving services for patients and the health of the local community than they can achieve separately. The merger of North Mid into the RFL group is currently expected to take place on 1 January 2025, subject to NHS England and Secretary of State approval.
Training Responsibilities
• To ensure completion of mandatory training
• To undertake any additional training as required
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to GCSE or equivalent Level 2 Literacy and Level 2 Numeracy
Desirable criteria
- Microsoft Office IT qualification
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Willingness to learn and committed to studies in order to achieve qualifications.
- Ability to develop effective working relationships across the organization.
- Maintain a professional approach: Smart and presentable.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Good working knowledge of IT Microsoft Packages such as Outlook, Word, Excel and other relevant programmes.
Desirable criteria
- Providing a customer focused service
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Shine
- Job title
- Deputy Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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