Paediatric Waiting List Team Leader | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join the Paediatric Waiting List Team as a Team Leader.
The Paediatric Team are looking to appoint an enthusiastic individual to a 9 month secondment working as a Team Leader within our Waiting List team based at Royal Derby Hospital working 37.5 hours per week.
The post holder will be a motivated team player with excellent communication skills both verbally and written, along with exceptional problem solving and advanced organisational skills.
The post holder will be required to work independently using high level of initiative to manage and prioritise a busy workload independently without direct supervision.
You will support the existing Operational Co-ordinators and Pathway Coordinators in providing a quality and efficient service to Paediatric Consultant staff and visiting Surgeons as well as being responsible for the management of the waiting list and WNB teams ensuring a friendly and efficient service is being provided to patients, visitors and clinicians.
The post holder will be a motivated team player, with excellent communication skills both verbally and written, along with exceptional problem solving and advanced organisational skills. You’d be responsible for the management of the waiting list team ensuring a friendly and efficient service is being provided to patients, visitors and Clinicians.Applicants must be confident communicators with the ability to liaise with all staff .
Essential qualities include strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to multi-task and work under pressure; with the ability to prioritise work duties and responsibilities effectively, day to day management and running of the waiting list team.
You will have a broad range of administrative skills including:
- Knowledge and understanding of a range of secretarial or administrative procedures
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Thorough knowledge of the 18 week RTT process
- Experience of using IT systems such as Outlook, Excel, Lorenzo and ORMIS
- Excellent organisational skills
Date of interview: 25 March 2025
If you are applying for an Internal Secondment, please ensure you have spoken to your line manager and have their support prior to your application. Please speak to the Recruitment Team if you have any questions.
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:- Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
- On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
- We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
- We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
- An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
- Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
- Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
- We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
- We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
- UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
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This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025