Central Booking Coordinator

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Booking Team within the Central Booking department at Salisbury Foundation Trust, as a band 3 Booking Coordinator.

You will join the main booking team and work within the team to provide an excellent, friendly and organised booking experience for our patients, working alongside the clinical staff to ensure the safe and appropriate booking of theatres, outpatient clinics and Endoscopy lists.

Join a busy team that's friendly and supportive, working collaboratively to cross cover. Experience using ESR, Lorenzo and a good understanding of patient pathways, booking and referral processes is desired but not essential as training will be provided.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for evidence of team working as well as the ability to work independently. The organisational skills to work in a busy team environment, whilst prioritising workload and working to deadline, recent administration experience is essential.

The candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience in patient/customer contact desirable.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk