Booking Clerk - 30 hours per week
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - 08:30 - 17:00
An opportunity has arisen for a Booking Clerk to join the Trust’s centralised outpatient appointments team, working 30 hours per week.
Our Booking Clerk role in the Patient Access Centre can offer you variety and challenges, representing the Trust as first point of contact with our patients.
- Handling inbound calls
- Booking, cancelling and rearranging Outpatient appointments
- Making outbound calls
- Maintaining a high standard of customer service
- Use of hospital systems to effectively support the management of the patient journey
- Managing clinic capacity
- Managing pending lists and wait times
- Processing new referrals from external and internal sources
- Managing theatre and secretary request spreadsheets
- Liaising with colleagues at all levels to ensure the patient journey is smooth
- To work in accordance with the Trust policies at all times
The Patient Access Centre is made up of 7 teams that book 95% of the Outpatient Appointments for the Acute and Community settings within Torbay and South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust.
The department handles approximately 500,000 calls a year and books approximately 500,000 appointments a year.
The teams are compromised of booking clerks and receptionists, with each team having between 6-13 team members and mainly work out of a centralised booking office based at Torbay Hospital.
Why work with us
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: David Fisher Job title: PAC Coordinator Email address: david.fisher8@nhs.net Telephone number: 01803 656303
