Sleep Laboratory Co-ordinator

Job summary

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for coordinating and providing a wide range of administrative duties to support the efficient and smooth running of the Sleep Laboratory.

This role will provide the first point of contact to all staff, patients, and visitors to the department both on the telephone and in person.

The maintenance of departmental spreadsheets and data bases to co-ordinate services is expected and this may also include creating letters for patient episodes as needed.

This role will also require the holder to support and co-ordinate the maintenance of equipment records and documents. Order equipment as needed and keep track of any outstanding orders.

There will be some limited patient face to face contact.

We admit patients to our 10 bedded inpatient facility 3 - 4 nights per week with outpatient clinics also running 3-5 days per week. Service levels are likely to change with service development in the future and flexibility with work tasks and work timings is expected.

Job responsibilities

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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