Receptionist - Access

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Main area Access Grade NHS AfC:
Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday
- Friday between the hours of 7.30am - 5.00pm) Job  

Site Ormskirk Hospital Town Southport Salary £25,272 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/08/2026 08:00

Positions Available - 1 x Full Time Permanent

We are looking to recruit a Receptionist within the Access team at Ormskirk District General Hospital

Previous applicants need not apply.

The post holder will be responsible for the registration of patients, booking patient appointments, general reception duties, and any other administration duties.

The learning and development opportunities are vast, we consider the department to be an innovative and creative environment.

Please be aware that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received, you are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.

• The post holder will provide reception duties across the organisation rotating across various outpatient departments. The post holder will be responsible for the day to day running of reception desks across the Trust ensuring patients are booked into clinics, outcome forms reconciled and provide patients with follow-up appointments as necessary.
• The role requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills together with a professional manner using tact and diplomacy, adjusting style to meet barriers to communication.

We can offer you:

Excellent opportunities for professional development supported by our own programmers tailored to meet your needs.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancs, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

The post holder will be responsible for:

• Ensuring that all patients attending for an out-patient clinic will be managed effectively and accurately at all times and all outcomes are completed daily following the appropriate work instructions.
• Reconcile clinics within 24 hours ensuring all outstanding actions are completed.
• Managing permanent and paper light health records. as well as scanning where necessary into the EDMS system following the appropriate work instructions
• Preparing patient records for clinic following the appropriate work instructions.
• Collecting patient records at the end of clinic and communicate with the scanning team following the appropriate work instructions.
• Checking all new…