Lakeside Healthcare Group

Patient Services Care Navigator

The closing date is 31 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

Main duties of the job

Some of your main duties will include:

  • To monitor the digital platform.
  • To provide clear and concise information to the Triage Team of the capacity in the platform.
  • Book patients the appropriate outcome from their digital submission, ensuring they have the right care, at the right time.
  • Provide clear communication to patient via the digital platform.
  • Handle patients with empathy, discretion, and professionalism.
  • Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, and other staff to ensure smooth patient care pathways.
  • Be a digital champion for patients and staff.
  • Support patients with completing digital submissions, over the telephone or at front desk.
  • Be able to cover all reception positions as necessary

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.

About the Practice/Department/Team

The Stamford Surgery is a friendly surgery run by doctors, nurses and associated staff who know their patients and care deeply about the quality of health provided to our community. We build upon this by investing in people, facilities, and equipment to provide services that are more accessible, more convenient and more diverse within the local community.

Details

Date posted

18 August 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£23,874.97 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A3007-25-0129

Job locations

Lakeside Healthcare

Ryhall Road

Stamford

Lincolnshire

PE9 1YA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Facilitate effective communication when receiving, assisting, and directing patients, ensuring the patient accesses the appropriate service or healthcare professional in a courteous, efficient and effective way

Provide general assistance to the triage team and project a positive and friendly image to patients and other visitors, either in person, via the telephone, or over the digital platform

Job description

Job responsibilities

Facilitate effective communication when receiving, assisting, and directing patients, ensuring the patient accesses the appropriate service or healthcare professional in a courteous, efficient and effective way

Provide general assistance to the triage team and project a positive and friendly image to patients and other visitors, either in person, via the telephone, or over the digital platform

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a busy & multi-functional team
  • Call centre experience or equivalent

Desirable

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

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good Standard Of Education

Desirable

  • Customer Service Qualification
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a busy & multi-functional team
  • Call centre experience or equivalent

Desirable

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

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good Standard Of Education

Desirable

  • Customer Service Qualification

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

Ryhall Road

Stamford

Lincolnshire

PE9 1YA


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Lakeside Healthcare Group

Address

Lakeside Healthcare

Ryhall Road

Stamford

Lincolnshire

PE9 1YA


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

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Details

Date posted

18 August 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£23,874.97 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A3007-25-0129

Job locations

Lakeside Healthcare

Ryhall Road

Stamford

Lincolnshire

PE9 1YA


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