Lakeside Healthcare Group

Patient Services Advisor

The closing date is 01 February 2026

Job summary

Do you have excellent customer service skills?

Do you thrive in a busy, fast paced environment?

Are you an organised 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.

Please note: This is a fixed term contract of 10 Months. For a part time role of 15.5 hours per week

Main duties of the job

What you will do

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

  • Process appointment requests from patients by telephone and in person and submit online Anima requests on behalf of patients, when required.
  • Receive and make telephone calls as required. Divert calls and take messages, ensuring accuracy of detail and prompt appropriate delivery.
  • Office admin duties.
  • Assist the Triage Doctor in assessing online consultations Animas received by the Practice and allocate / book appointments accordingly.
  • Ensure building security.

Essential Criteria

We are looking for somebody with:

  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills and great telephone skills.
  • The ability to use their own initiative.
  • The ability to work as part of an integrated and multi-skilled team.
  • Ability to manage the general public in a caring and courteous manner.
  • Call centre experience or equivalent

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

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

Here at the Hereward Practice, we aim to provide the best care and service to our patients in a busy department. We are a small, friendly reception team who work hard to ensure patients needs are met adequately.

We look after 12,000 patients at the practice, so this is a very fast paced working environment which makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work.

Details

Date posted

19 January 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.21 an hour

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

10 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A3007-26-0009

Job locations

Hereward Group Practice

Exeter Street

Bourne

Lincolnshire

PE10 9XR


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 practice team and project a positive, friendly and caring image to patients and other visitors, either in person or via the telephone.

Please see document attached for full Job Description

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 practice team and project a positive, friendly and caring image to patients and other visitors, either in person or via the telephone.

Please see document attached for full Job Description

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

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

Desirable

  • 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

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

Desirable

  • 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

Hereward Group Practice

Exeter Street

Bourne

Lincolnshire

PE10 9XR


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Lakeside Healthcare Group

Address

Hereward Group Practice

Exeter Street

Bourne

Lincolnshire

PE10 9XR


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

19 January 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.21 an hour

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

10 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A3007-26-0009

Job locations

Hereward Group Practice

Exeter Street

Bourne

Lincolnshire

PE10 9XR


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