The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Inpatient Booking Clerk (Internal Only)
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INTERNAL ONLY POST*
This post is for internal candidates to 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 and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.
Job Overview
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.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is expected to plan and prioritise workload using their own initiative working and within agreed Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures to support decision making.
- To operate and maintain an efficient and effective planning service for in-patient or day case surgery booking. Ensuring 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 to ensure that they are planned in accordance with their clinical priority i.e. urgent or cancer patients followed by routine patient patients by longest wait in line within the National 18 week referral to treatment target.
- The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that planned lists are agreed with Surgeons when appropriate to ensure that the patient list order is correct taking into account any allergies, alerts and pre operative assessment status.
- The post holder will be responsible for arranging pre operative assessments for patients ensuring that this is completed in a timely manner in order to achieve maximum optimisation.
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We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.
Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.
By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.
The post holder will be expected to provide an efficient and effective in patient booking service for the Trust working within the Patient Access Centre, and Division Surgery, Anaesthetics, Cancer and Critical Care.
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