Patient Pathway Adminstrator

The purpose of this role is to provide high standard, efficient and comprehensive support to clinical teams within the Respiratory Medicine Service. The post holder is responsible for managing all elements of the patient pathway in line with the Trust's Elective Access Policy. They will become familiar with different outpatient pathways and referral to treatment (RTT) status codes. The post holder is expected to work within the wider administrative team and alongside clinical staff to deliver a high standard of patient care and proactively contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of the service., 1.

Provide primary administrative support to all clinical staff, primarily consultants, and all patients under their care, including diary administration, correspondence support and other administrative duties as required. 1. Act as a first point of contact on the telephone and by email for patients, relatives, GPs and any other relevant agencies, answering or re-directing queries in a timely manner, as appropriate.

Similarly, responding to queries from elsewhere in the Trust, for example, the Patient Contact Centre, and ensuring these agencies are informed of any changes to local processes. 1. Use Trust digital transcription systems to produce high-quality clinical correspondence to inform referrers, patients and other relevant parties of patient pathway progress within local and national target timeframes. Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country.

It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.

Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.