About this role
Job summary
Join Our Outpatient Booking Team as a Clinic Coordinator
An exciting opportunity has come up to join our established and friendly a Outpatient Booking Team here at the Royal United Hospital in Bath. If you're passionate about great customer service, enjoy working in a busy environment, and love helping people, this could be the perfect role for you.
As a Clinic Coordinator, you'll play a key part ensuring our patients have a smooth and positive experience from the very start of their journey. You'll be responsible for booking and rescheduling a wide range of outpatient appointments, supporting callers with their queries, and carrying out essential administrative tasks that help us deliver safe, efficient and high-quality care.
We're looking for someone who:
Has excellent customer service and communication skills Is organised, accurate and confident using administrative systems Can stay calm and professional under pressure Works well as part of a supportive, fast-paced team Brings compassion and a positive approach to every interaction
You'll be working closely with colleagues in the Call Handling Team and across the department, patients receive a friendly, professional and seamless service.
Previous experience in customer service or a busy administrative environment would be an advantage, we're looking for someone who is motivated, adaptable and committed to delivering outstanding patient care.
If this sounds like you, we'd love you to join our team.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the Trust's Outpatient Booking Centre, you will play an essential role in supporting the smooth and efficient delivery of outpatient services. You will be responsible for managing and operating the partial or full-booking process for specific outpatient specialties, ensuring patients are scheduled within local, regional and national access targets, including RTT pathways.
In this role, you will help ensure patients receive timely appointments, contribute to high-quality care, and support the Trust in meeting important performance standards.
If you're organised, customer-focused and keen to make a real difference to patient experience, we'd love to hear from you.
About us
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
By working together, we make a real difference for our patients, each other, and our community. Every role matters in delivering the exceptional, person-centred care we're proud of.
We're committed to a compassionate, inclusive culture where kindness is championed, differences are valued, and diversity makes us stronger.
We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential. We prioritise staff wellbeing - and yes, we even have a pool!
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Job description Job responsibilities
To book patients according to the Trust Effective Management of Waiting ListPolicy. To maximise clinic utilisation, ensuring patients are booked according to thetimescales within the Trust Effective Management of Waiting Lists Policy. To have responsibility for the management of clinics templates within a designatedspecialty including responding appropriately to changes, eg clinic cancellations,annual leave, sickness and additional clinics. To manage the specialty patient targeting list (PTL) by tracking, booking and closingpatient episodes ensuring all patients are booked by the agreed deadlines andaccording to local, regional and national outpatient access targets.To generate and post partial booking letters for the designated specialty in accordancewith the Trust Effective Management of Waiting Lists Policy.To expedite appointments for patients upgraded during the triage process cancelling and re-booking as necessary to achieve targets including the Cancertarget.To liaise with GP practices to retrieve missing referrals or gain additional informationwhen necessary.To inform the Clinic Coordinator Manager when capacity is not available to bookpatients within the agreed step-down targets.To cross-cover other specialties as required in event of absence of colleagues. To generate and post partial booking letters for the designated specialty in
Person Specification
Essential Essential
NHS experience Experience of working in an administration role
Desirable
Knowledge of RUH systems
Specific skills Essential
Experience of working in a team
Desirable
oAbility to remain impartial and non-judgemental during conflict of sensitivity, stress and conflict.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Address Royal United Hospital
Bath
BA1 3NG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ruh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)