Service Support Administrator

Job overview

Come and work in our Children and Young Peoples administration team providing quality administrative services to clinician across multiple services. You will be delivering a diverse range of secretarial and administrative tasks, working alongside a team of experienced and knowledgeable staff to ensure a high standard of service is delivered for patients, parents and clinicians. This post covers our services across the county and offers the opportunity to learn and enhance your skill set due to the diversity of the role.

You will be responsible for supporting patients from referral through to treatment by scheduling and managing appointments, monitoring patient pathways, responding to enquiries, and ensuring all information is communicated accurately and promptly. You will help maintain high standards of patient experience while supporting performance targets such as Referral to Treatment (RTT), 18 week waits.

Main duties of the job

• Manage waiting lists to ensure timely access to appointments
• Schedule, monitor, and manage appointments
• Provide patients with accurate and timely information regarding appointments. Respond to patient enquiries and assist with appointment rescheduling or cancellations when required.
• Maintain effective communication between patients, and clinical teams.
• Record, update, and report patient and performance data using Trust information systems.
• Proficient in audio typing and transcribing reports and meeting minutes
• Identify and escalate operational issues to line management.
• Support service performance by meeting reporting deadlines and highlighting potential breaches or concerns.
• Ensure compliance with Trust policies, and Service Standard Operation Procedures

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A detailed job description including a person specification has been uploaded wit this vacancy. This includes a list of responsibilities, Skills and competencies for the role

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.