Customer Service Advisor Apprenticeship- Health Visiting
- Employer
- NHS England Apprenticeships
- Location
- Walsall
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Closing date
- 27 Sep 2022
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- Specialism
- Health & Social Care
- Sector
- Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals & Science
- Role Type
- Apprenticeship
- Start Date
- Ongoing
- Duration
- Permanent
Job Details
The post holder will be responsible for providing a welcoming and efficient service for Health Visiting This will include signposting services and the public, processing service user details using electronic systems, consulting with clinicians and colleagues to facilitate a smooth and response service for health visitor service users, clients and locality health visiting teams across the borough.
Key Responsibilities
- iaise with health visitors, service users, children's services and Trust support staff in person, via telephone and email.
- Demonstrate a caring and professional approach towards service users and the public when performing reception or clerical duties.
- Escalate service user queries to health visiting teams or relevant clinical staff as appropriate.
- Show a caring and professional approach towards service users and carers via telephone or face to face. This may require acting with resilience to deal with sometimes distressed service users in an empathic manner.
- Clerical duties: maintaining accurate electronic filing systems, diary management, scanning clinical notes if required. Maintain patient information. Inputting patient data accurately and timely.
Main duties of the job
Professional Duties and Responsibilities
- Check and update service user details. Open / close referals to Health Visiting service.
- Type letters and arrange appointments for service users/ patients.
- Input outcomes of appointments on Careflow, including those who did not attend on relevant patient administration system or other relevant computer systems in a timely and accurate manner according to Trust Policy.
- Check incoming email inbox(s)
- Take part in departmental audits and associated duties.
- Attend training courses as required to support personal development and the needs of the service.
About us
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trustprovides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading. Construction of the new integrated critical care unit was completed in 2018, extension of a Neonatal Unit and an approved plan to build a brand new, state of the art Emergency Department which will commence in 2021
We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall. Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and homebased care, so that those with long term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes.
Date posted
22 September 2022
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£20,270 to £21,318 a year National Minimum Wage for Age, then view to increase to Band 2
Contract
Apprenticeship
Duration
24 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
407-HV-4604123
Job locations
Child Development Centre
Coalheath Lane
Walsall
WS4 1PL
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE, grade C/Level 4 or above (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths
Experience
Essential
- Clerical and administration experience
Skills
Essential
- Good communication and listening skills
- Excellent telephone/reception manner
- Knowledge of health visiting service
- Be able to communicate with parents and health and social care colleagues
- Excellent telephone/reception manner
- Confidence to handle difficult conversations with service users and the public
- Enthusiastic and supportive
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE, grade C/Level 4 or above (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths
Experience
Essential
- Clerical and administration experience
Skills
Essential
- Good communication and listening skills
- Excellent telephone/reception manner
- Knowledge of health visiting service
- Be able to communicate with parents and health and social care colleagues
- Excellent telephone/reception manner
- Confidence to handle difficult conversations with service users and the public
- Enthusiastic and supportive
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
Employer details
Employer name
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Address
Child Development Centre
Coalheath Lane
Walsall
WS4 1PL
Employer's website
https://walsallhealthcare.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Address
Child Development Centre
Coalheath Lane
Walsall
WS4 1PL
Employer's website
https://walsallhealthcare.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
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