Clinical Office Administrator, Diabetes

The Clinical Office Administrator will provide:
A comprehensive administrative service to the Consultants and their Medical team
Organisation of their workload with the Consultants and Teams, coordinating with other clinical administration to ensure that an efficient service is provided.
An essential point of contact for patients and work closely with clinicians, specialist nurses, and other specialities.
Contact with all members of the Patient Pathway Team to ensure that pathways are actively managed and any clinic/theatre bookings are made in line with the Trust's Access Policy.
Initiative to exercise and carry out their duties in such a way as to make a direct and positive contribution to the organisation of the work., Liaise with the Patient Pathway Team across the Trust as a whole, to ensure co-ordination of all elements of the patient pathway. This may include highlighting patient target dates to ensure that investigations/diagnostics are carried out and results received in a timely manner.
To liaise with the Appointments Centre regarding outpatient clinic bookings as necessary and ensure patient follow up appointments are booked as soon as results are known and are available for clinic appointment.
Monitor patients who are sent to other Trusts for treatment to ensure they do not breach 18 weeks (MDS forms) in conjunction with Patient Pathway Team.
To highlight any potential breaches or delays in the patient's pathway to the Team Leader, Patient Pathway Team or Service Manager according to the Trust's escalation policy.
To liaise directly with patients to book, cancel, and rebook any outpatient appointments.
To be responsible for sending out relevant appointment letters, and cancelling/rebooking patients follow-up appointments.
Responsible for checking all clinic letters are completed accurately and outcomes actioned and recorded on PAS.
Dispose of outstanding uncashed clinic outcomes on PAS.
Monitor overbooking of clinics and arrange additional clinics to meet 18 week and cancer targets in conjunction with clinicians and Service Managers.
Manage changes in clinic templates as directed by the Service Manager., Attend regular team meetings arranged by Team Leader.
Deal with patient queries effectively by telephone, letter, and email.
As part of a team with other Clinical Office Administrative Co-ordinators, provide (minimum) gam - 5pm secretarial/admin cover from Monday to Friday each week within each specialty.
Have the ability and commitment to work as a team member and be able to adhere to strict deadlines.
Provide a fast and accurate clinical correspondence secretarial/admin service with proficient use of appropriate software and systems to meet the required Trust's standard of work. As appropriate, prepare straightforward replies and requests for consultant teams.
To use new working systems within the Clinical Office to promote an efficient service, ie the outsourced transcription service, e-correspondence to PCT GP practices, electronically developed storage and print, systems, discharge summary systems, and the storage of appropriate information electronically on shared drives
General office duties including filing and photocopying.
Using various systems such as the Patient Administration System (PAS), Patient Centre, and Evolve (Electronic Medical Records) to help manage the 18 week patient pathway. Ensure changes notified by patients are added accurately and immediately, in accordance with required Trust standards of work.
Ad-hoc retrieval of medical records/investigation results relating to patient/GP/Consultant enquiries, liaising with all staff concerned with patient services as necessary i.e. medical nursing, medical records, pathology, histology and management
Provides first point of contact for written and telephone queries on behalf of consultants and teams, using judgement to establish validity and priority of the contact.
Responsible for dealing with enquiries from patients, (written and via telephone/email) relatives, wards, GPs and various external agencies, providing information and taking appropriate action as required whilst ensuring patient confidentiality at all times.
Ensure that all results are checked by the Consultant and then filed in the appropriate medical records or forwarded to other parties as required.
Exercise independent judgement and initiative when problems arise, taking the necessary actions to resolve the problems or referring to the appropriate person.
For alt tertiary referrals, responsible for the provision of the Inter Provider Transfer Minimum Data Set within 48 hours of referral.
When required, chase up responses to complaints within optimum deadlines and forward to the correct party within the Trust.
Co-ordination and support of clinics as required.
Participate in Trust training courses as appropriate to ensure skills and knowledge are maintained.
Responsible for notifying the Patient Pathway Team, the Service Manager, and the Appointment Centre in a timely fashion (minimum of 6 weeks' notice) of any annual, study or professional leave or on-call duties by the Consultants, or junior doctors, that will necessitate reduction.
Co-operate fully in the introduction of new technology and new methods of working as appropriate to the work of the administrative team. Establish good levels of communication and liaison with other secretaries, medical staff and other departments and hospitals.
Demonstrate an understanding and reassuring manner when dealing with patients and their relatives. Undertake all mandatory training as required by the Trust.
To support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work.

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
+ Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
+ On-site Nurseries
+ On-site staff cafes
+ On-site parking
+ Support in career development
+ Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics