Urology Patient Pathway Assistant

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has recently arisen within the Bristol Urological Institute as we are advertising for a Patient Pathway Assistant working 1 x 30.0 hours and 1 x 37.5 hours, to join our busy Urology department. This is an exciting opportunity to start your career working within the Bristol Urological Institute.

The Urology department are focused on helping manage the administrative processes for patients who suffer with Urological issues in the Bristol and South West area and also RTT patients needing general urology care. The role will be to support all administration aspects of the patient pathway in line with 18 weeks referral to treatment guidelines and cancer pathways, therefore RTT and cancer knowledge would be extremely beneficial.

This role also involves working closely with the Consultant Team and Patient Pathway Coordinator, deputising for them as required.

The ideal candidate will need to be able to work in a calm, logical, organised and methodical way whilst being able to multi-task in a busy environment with complex patient pathways.

Main duties of the job

The Urology Patient Pathway Assistant is responsible for supporting the Patient Pathway Coordinator to manage the inpatient and day case waiting lists for Consultant Urologists operating at Southmead Hospital, coordinating admission and associated pre-operative clinics and theatre lists.

To play a central role within these services and to work in close liaison with colleagues, staff in other departments, GPs, patients and the general public. To work well as part of a team whilst being able to use their own initiative to provide administrative support to the Patient Pathway Coordinator within the Urology team, to ensure effective high quality service is provided.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.