Therapy Outpatient Booking Officer

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced Therapy Outpatient Booking Officer to join our busy Therapies Stats Team to ensure that referrals for therapy outpatient appointments are processed in line with our response standards and patients are booked in according to their clinical needs. The role of Therapy Outpatient Booking Officer requires accurate and efficient data entry on to Cerner, and an awareness of wider reporting requirements and deadlines.

Main duties of the job

You should be able to work as part of a very busy team and under your own initiative. As well as having excellent communication, organisational, prioritisation and interpersonal skills, you will need to be flexible and adaptable, have an appreciation of the confidential nature of the work and be able to manage a workload to meet pre-determined deadlines. You should have a pleasant telephone manner and be able to deal with difficult calls if necessary.

Experience of using Cerner is preferred.

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About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.