Booking & Scheduling Clerk | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has opened up to join our team.

With demand on our services at an all time high the role our department provides has never been more critical.

Team Members are required to work on a rota system to cover

8.00am - 6.00pm Monday - Friday

As a Senior Booking Clerk your main duties will cover:

• Managing waiting lists by priority and date order


• Booking those next on the list to a date and time that suits them


• Answering and signposting general enquiries from patients calling our appointments line


• Working collaboratively with the directorate team to ensure the capacity & demand balance is right


• Organising your workload to meet our KPI's
  
  Be able to prioritise your workload effectively


• Pride yourself on being organised


• Have an excellent eye for detail


• Be confident using a computer and Microsoft Office (in particular Excel)


• Have an excellent telephone manner


• Be able to communicate effectively and manage patient expectation


• Strive to give our patients an excellent customer service


• Be enthusiastic, resilient, confident, and committed, Disability Confident

About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We will give you:

• The chance to make a difference to people in our local communities


• A mix of both office and home-working on a rota basis once training completed


• A range of Monday to Friday shifts


• Career development opportunities