PPC for Maxillofacial Surgery & Dentistry

Job summary

To maintain an accurate and up to date waiting list, booking admissions for patients in order and ensuring that all information recorded complies with the Trust requirements for effective management.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Maxillofacial Surgery & Dental services, for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to work as a Patient Pathway Coordinator. You will be responsible, as part of a team, for co-ordinating and organising Maxillofacial Surgery & Dental admissions. You will work closely with the Maxillofacial Surgery & Dental clinical teams and Maxillofacial Surgery & Dental Managers. You will be responsible for booking patients in an effect and timely way, ensuring compliance with RTT rules.

We are primarily looking for people with enthusiasm and the ability to learn. You will also be expected to be computer literate, have excellent organisational skills, a patient focused approach and the ability to communicate well on the telephone, in writing and in person with all levels of staff and with patients and their carers. Experience of using Cerner Millennium and co-ordinating admissions in the NHS are desirable.

Applicants should have the ability to deal sensitively with a range of issues involved in working in a clinical department. The ability to prioritise your workload to meet deadlines is essential, as is the ability to work without supervision and as part of a team. A flexible approach to the competing demands of the job is essential.

The post-holder must be able to demonstrate an ability to communicate well with all levels of staff and with patients and their carers.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.