Inpatient Booking Clerk (Internal only), Halfway House

This position is for internal candidates only at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust. If you are not currently working within either of these Trusts, your application will not be reviewed.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Inpatient Booking Clerk to join the Inpatient Booking Team ensuring that theatre lists are planned in accordance with agreed service guidelines and in line with National Waiting times and Clinical targets.

The successful applicant will be educated to GCSE level including Maths and English at grades 9-4 (or equivalent) and be competent and experienced in a range of administration and clerical duties within a healthcare setting.

• Plan and prioritise workload using own initiative within agreed Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures to support decision making.
• Operate and maintain an efficient and effective planning service for in‑patient or day‑case surgery booking. Ensure clinical priorities are maintained and recorded appropriately within the PAS system and that patients are planned for their surgery using the appropriate in‑patient waiting list available on the SQL reporting system in accordance with their clinical priority and the National 18‑week referral to treatment target.
• Ensure that planned lists are agreed with Surgeons when appropriate to ensure that the patient list order is correct taking into account allergies, alerts and pre‑operative assessment status.
• Arrange pre‑operative assessments for patients to ensure they are completed in a timely manner in order to achieve maximum optimisation.

• GCSE level including Maths and English at grades 9-4 (or equivalent)
• Competent and experienced in a range of administration and clerical duties within a healthcare setting