Job summary
Are you passionate about delivering exceptional patient care and looking for an opportunity to lead a dynamic team? King's Mill Hospital is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join us as a Operations Assistant. This role will be based on site.
You will act as the primary contact for patients accessing elective hospital services, guiding them through their care pathway and use your expertise to proactively manage the patient pathway from referral to discharge, ensuring smooth transitions and high levels of patient care.
If you are ready to make a difference and take on this exciting challenge, we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.
Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Principles of business project management and performance management
- Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise demands
- Ability to use own initiative
- Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively
- Ability to convey clear messages
- Enthusiastic and able to motivate others
- Self-motivated
- Previous staff management is strongly desirable, but training can be provided on the job
Desirable
- Service development/improvement methodologies
- Working knowledge of the NHS
- Previous operational knowledge of RTT and key KPI's is desirable
- Design and set up spread sheets
- Analyse data, highlight trends and/or inconsistencies of business and performance data, using Microsoft Exce
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE grade C or above in Maths & English or equivalent qualification
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
- The post holder will be expected to communicate complex and sensitive issues
Desirable
- Advanced key board skills
Further Training
Essential
- Provide an effective channel of communication for building and maintaining relationships with all staff and key stakeholders with the areas of responsibility, using appropriate methods
Desirable
- To provide administrative support to the business unit such as supporting rota management, requesting staffing and the setup of clinics.
- Attend meetings at senior management level as and when required
- Produce and maintain business case project plans
- Attend business case project meetings, in order to produce and circulate minutes, risk registers, issue logs and project plans
- Assist in producing written reports (including Business Cases), process flow charts and presentations using the Microsoft Office Suite
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and skill in the use and analysis of data to assist service improvement
Experience
Essential
- Ability to source, research and collate information including statistical data
- Ability to work independently problem solving but as part of a wider team
Desirable
- To support service development and modernisation work within the division and participate in process mapping work-flows.
Contractual Requirements
Essential
Desirable
- Flexible approach to ways of working and a positive can do attitude
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Principles of business project management and performance management
- Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise demands
- Ability to use own initiative
- Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively
- Ability to convey clear messages
- Enthusiastic and able to motivate others
- Self-motivated
- Previous staff management is strongly desirable, but training can be provided on the job
Desirable
- Service development/improvement methodologies
- Working knowledge of the NHS
- Previous operational knowledge of RTT and key KPI's is desirable
- Design and set up spread sheets
- Analyse data, highlight trends and/or inconsistencies of business and performance data, using Microsoft Exce
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE grade C or above in Maths & English or equivalent qualification
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
- The post holder will be expected to communicate complex and sensitive issues
Desirable
- Advanced key board skills
Further Training
Essential
- Provide an effective channel of communication for building and maintaining relationships with all staff and key stakeholders with the areas of responsibility, using appropriate methods
Desirable
- To provide administrative support to the business unit such as supporting rota management, requesting staffing and the setup of clinics.
- Attend meetings at senior management level as and when required
- Produce and maintain business case project plans
- Attend business case project meetings, in order to produce and circulate minutes, risk registers, issue logs and project plans
- Assist in producing written reports (including Business Cases), process flow charts and presentations using the Microsoft Office Suite
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and skill in the use and analysis of data to assist service improvement
Experience
Essential
- Ability to source, research and collate information including statistical data
- Ability to work independently problem solving but as part of a wider team
Desirable
- To support service development and modernisation work within the division and participate in process mapping work-flows.
Contractual Requirements
Essential
Desirable
- Flexible approach to ways of working and a positive can do attitude
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.
