Speciality Admissions Co-Ordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an established Surgical admissions team as a Speciality Admissions Coordinator based at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Reporting to the Surgical Admissions Lead, the role comprises of all administrative procedures associated with the admission of elective, planned, diagnostic and cancer patients for the delivery of current waiting time targets.

The successful applicant will be a reliable, hard working person who has high standards and likes to do an excellent job where making a difference is what drives you most and you are passionate about providing high quality patient care. You will be required to work closely with surgeons and their teams as well as the surgical admissions booking team.

The team currently manages the admissions and bookings for the Urology Service. The successful applicant will be allocated their own patient list to manage as well as leading the Urology Admission team.,

• To work with the 18-week validation team, ensuring that all TCI entries on the waiting list for Surgery, have a validated clock start date.


• To identify patients that are at risk of breaching and working to current waiting time targets and to liaise with the admissions team to facilitate booking of operation dates.


• To identify patients that are at risk of breaching cancer and diagnostics targets and to liaise with the admissions team to facilitate booking of operation dates.


• The post holder will manage their own case load and maintain associated records.


• The post holder will have managerial responsibility for more junior staff with the Admissions team.


• The post holder will report directly to the Surgical Admissions Lead and be responsible for the management of Band 3 team members which will include conducting appraisals, ensuring compliance with mandatory training and delegation of workload.


• To deputise for the band 5 as required.
  
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