Inpatient Booking Clerk

Job overview

This post is for internal candidates to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. If you are not currently working within The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Inpatient Booking Clerk to join the Inpatient Booking Team ensuring that theatre lists are planned in accordance with agreed service guidelines and in line with National Waiting times and Clinical targets.

The successful applicant will be educated to GCSE level including Maths and English at grades 9 - 4 (or equivalent) and be competent and experienced in a range of administration and clerical duties within a healthcare setting.

• The post holder is expected to plan and prioritise workload using their own initiative working and within agreed Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures to support decision making.
• To operate and maintain an efficient and effective planning service for in-patient or day case surgery booking. Ensuring clinical priorities are maintained and recorded appropriately within the PAS system and that patients are planned for their Surgery using the appropriate in patient waiting list available on the SQL reporting system to ensure that they are planned in accordance with their clinical priority i.e. urgent or cancer patients followed by routine patient patients by longest wait in line within the National 18 week referral to treatment target.
• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that planned lists are agreed with Surgeons when appropriate to ensure that the patient list order is correct taking into account any allergies, alerts and pre operative assessment status.
• The post holder will be responsible for arranging pre operative assessments for patients ensuring that this is completed in a timely manner in order to achieve maximum optimisation.

The post holder will be expected to provide an efficient and effective in patient booking service for the Trust working within the Patient Access, Theatre, Anaesthetics and Critical Care Centre.

As an organisation we strive to provide high quality, safe care for our patients in an environment which our staff are proud to work in. We believe that by adhering to our Vision ("To provide excellent care for the communities we serve") and working with our Trust Values in mind (Partnering, Ambitious, Caring, Trusted) we can achieve the right results for the people that matter most – our patients and their families.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trustcan offer you great career prospects and a fantastic work-life balance. Situated in one of the most attractive parts of the country with dramatic countryside and bustling towns we have state of the art facilities, helpful friendly teams and excellent professional development opportunities.

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.