Patient Pathway Administrator
The closing date is 25 September 2025
Job summary
The post holder will play an important role in the provision of high-quality administrative support to the Community Children's Nursing Team. The post holder will use their excellent communication skills both to support patient, carer, and staff queries. These may be face to face, on the phone and email.
Main duties of the job
MAIN DUTIES
To provide a high quality, helpful and courteous response for members of the public, service users and representatives of other departments or agencies by telephone, showing sensitivity to their feelings and respecting their wishes wherever possible.
To communicate effectively with callers, managing expectations and ensuring patients are happy with the responses they receive. Also, to liaise externally with clinicians, team leads and service managers to maintain a positive image and reputation for community services. This role may involve dealing with upset or aggressive people on the telephone.
To register new patients onto the electronic patient record system such as RiO, Care Flow, Emisand other relevant patient systems
To administer the processes for establishing efficient clinic utilisation; this includes identify and managing the long waiter with use of the PTL list, booking interpreters and supporting patient with booking of transport, sending group text message reminders to patient when appropriate, processing outcomes, cancelling and rescheduling clinics.
To maintain accurate electronic records.
To manage the generic mailboxes, respond to service users queries, forward relevant communications/reports to the clinical teams, and escalate complex matters as necessary to the Patient Pathway Supervisor.
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About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Details
Date posted
11 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£30,546 to £32,207 a year pro rata per annum including HCAS
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
220-WHT-3287-A
Job locations
Northern health centre
580 Holloway Road
London
N7 6LB
Employer details
Employer name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Northern health centre
580 Holloway Road
London
N7 6LB
Employer's website
https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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