Weight Management Service Coordinator | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

ESNEFT is starting a new Weight Management Service which will deliver bariatric/metabolic surgery, endoscopic and medical weight management treatments to the Suffolk and North Essex population.

We are looking for a Co-ordinator to join us in this exciting new service.

You will provide an efficient admin service to the team, including arranging appointments, processing queries from patients, managing electronic referrals and co-ordinating the patients journey through the Weight Management Service.

This role will be based at Colchester although working from home/flexible working will be considered.

You should have previous administration experience ideally within the NHS. Excellent communication skills, ability to work in a team and good attention to detail are essential.

Audio typing of outpatient clinic letters using the digital dictation system and reports using Microsoft Word within agreed timescale.

To provide full and efficient secretarial and administrative support to WMS Consultants, CNS, AHP and Fellow.

Manage all electronic referrals as Trust policy

To co-ordinate patient journeys through the Weight Management Service, ensuring co-ordinated sequences of clinic appointments following defined pathways, including clinic booking, actioning MDT outcomes and ensuring patients complete all defined parts of assessment and treatment pathways.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Sunday 15 Sep 2024