Patient Pathway Coordinator

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time band 4 Patient Pathway Coordinator working within the Specialist Medicine Directorate at St George's Hospital in Tooting.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing administrative support to clinical teams, booking appointments, typing clinic letters and monitoring the patient pathway with expert precision.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are key for this role as there is a need to communicate complex and sensitive information and provide support to both clinical and administrative staff.

This is a busy and dynamic role with a varied and interesting workload. It would suit someone that has excellent attention to detail and is confident at problem-solving.

You will be part of a friendly and supportive team working together to ensure our patients receive the very best possible care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will help to manage the Patient Tracking List, schedule appointments when required, process patient letters and provide a high standard of administrative support to ensure patients receive treatment as soon as possible and ensure national targets are met. This post will also support the team with the administration aspects of service delivery, including advanced therapy high-cost drug prescription coordination when required.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they 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.