Lakeside Healthcare Group

Patient Services Advisor

The closing date is 03 August 2025

Job summary

  • Do you have excellent customer service skills?
  • Do you thrive in a busy, fast paced environment?
  • Are you an organized person with great attention to detail?
  • If you answered yes to any of these questions, we would like to hear from you.

We have a great opportunity for the right candidate to join our patient services team. We are looking for someone with a passion for primary care and the drive to support our clinical service.

Main duties of the job

You will be assisting and directing patients toward the appropriate service or healthcare professional in a courteous, efficient and effective way. Duties include:

  • Processing appointment requests from patients for on the day and future appointments
  • Receive and make telephone calls as required. Divert calls and take messages, ensuring accuracy of detail and prompt appropriate delivery
  • Registration of new patients computer data entry and medical records
  • Ensure building security

About us

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire. Joining our team presents an opportunity to be part of a large organisation that is changing the way primary care is delivered today.

Living and breathing our values at Lakeside Healthcare

Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do. We strive to ensure we connect and respond to all needs with compassion, care and respect to improve the lives and wellbeing of the communities we serve.

Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Practice/Department/Team

Joining our team here at Oundle surgery presents an opportunity to be part of a great team. We are a practice with a population of around 10,500 patients. It is a very fast paced working environment and this makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work.

Details

Date posted

23 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.21 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A3007-25-0114

Job locations

Lakeside Healthcare

Glapthorn Road

Oundle

Peterborough

PE8 4JA


Job description

Job responsibilities

To be responsible for undertaking a wide range of reception and admin duties and the provision of general support to the multidisciplinary team. Duties can include but are not limited to, greeting and directing patients, effective use of the appointment system, booking appointments, processing of information and assisting patients as required.

To act as the central point of contact for patients, the distribution of information, messages and enquiries for the clinical team, liaising with multidisciplinary team members and external agencies such as secondary care and community service providers.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be responsible for undertaking a wide range of reception and admin duties and the provision of general support to the multidisciplinary team. Duties can include but are not limited to, greeting and directing patients, effective use of the appointment system, booking appointments, processing of information and assisting patients as required.

To act as the central point of contact for patients, the distribution of information, messages and enquiries for the clinical team, liaising with multidisciplinary team members and external agencies such as secondary care and community service providers.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good standard of education

Desirable

  • Customer Service qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Customer Service Skills
  • Experience of working in a busy & multi-functional team.
  • Call centre experience or equivalent
  • Experience of handling confidential information and data

Desirable

  • Using Systm One (Clinical database)
  • Experience of working within a GP Surgery
  • A minimum of three years experience in a customer facing environment
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good standard of education

Desirable

  • Customer Service qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Customer Service Skills
  • Experience of working in a busy & multi-functional team.
  • Call centre experience or equivalent
  • Experience of handling confidential information and data

Desirable

  • Using Systm One (Clinical database)
  • Experience of working within a GP Surgery
  • A minimum of three years experience in a customer facing environment

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

Lakeside Healthcare Group

Address

Lakeside Healthcare

Glapthorn Road

Oundle

Peterborough

PE8 4JA


Employer's website

https://www.lakesidehealthcaregroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Lakeside Healthcare Group

Address

Lakeside Healthcare

Glapthorn Road

Oundle

Peterborough

PE8 4JA


Employer's website

https://www.lakesidehealthcaregroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Details

Date posted

23 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.21 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A3007-25-0114

Job locations

Lakeside Healthcare

Glapthorn Road

Oundle

Peterborough

PE8 4JA


Supporting documents

Privacy notice

Lakeside Healthcare Group's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)