Theatre Scheduling Support

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder will also contribute to providing a high-quality and efficient surgical scheduling service for patients and consultant teams across Royal Stoke Hospital and Stafford Hospital. They will help ensure that patients receive their surgical interventions within appropriate timescales based on clinical need, national waiting list targets, and Trust priorities. As instructed by the Team Leader, the Theatre Scheduler will support the wider Theatre Scheduling Team and act as a point of contact for colleagues for various stakeholders. The complexity and intensity of the service workload has increased in recent years, and it is essential that the postholder can adapt to changing demands.

Person specification

Essential Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to GCSE level (or equivalent) including English and Maths.
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience providing administrative support in a busy office or clinical environment.
• Experience managing a range of general administrative duties (printing, filing, record keeping, archiving).
• Experience maintaining databases, • • • The best joined-up care for all spreadsheets, or other information systems.

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria

• Understanding of confidentiality, information governance, and data protection
• Ability to work flexibly and provide The best joined-up care for all cross-cover during staff absence.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Reliable, adaptable and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Team-oriented and able to build positive working relationships with colleagues across departments.

Important information about your application

1. All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
2. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
3. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
5. New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
6. We work with 'trac.jobs' to support out recruitment process. If you have any queries regarding this please read this