Website The Christie NHS FT
Accredited as a comprehensive cancer centre. We treat more than 60,000 patients a year.
Job summary
Are you highly motivated and flexible with excellent communication and keyboard skills?An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to become a part of the Central Services Directorate as a clerical administrative officer ensuring that patients coming in to the department are dealt with in an efficient, timely and courteous manner. Supporting the medical staff using the Careflow patient administration system.The successful candidate will rotate between all Central Administration areas and will learn a wide array of skills from frontline services to back-office duties. Full training and support will be given.
Previous applicants need not apply
Main duties of the job
o Responsible for registering and triaging new patients to The Christie on the appropriate patient administration system including routine use of case note tracking system.
o Responsible for the retrieval of outside notes and films and reports as requested.
o To contact patients by phone with regards to their appointments and to annotate in CWP.
o To book patients’ transport as per protocol and request interpreters as appropriate
o File all relevant paperwork into patient case notes appropriately.
o Print out and copy relevant paperwork that has been requested via the SARs team.
o Collate and disseminate all incoming and outgoing correspondence appropriately.
About us
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
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