Job Overview
In this role, you will support and uphold the Trust’s values by providing a compassionate, respectful, and effective response to patient complaints, concerns, and enquiries within the Patient Advice and Liaison Services (PALS) office. You will be responsible for communicating with staff, patients, carers, and relatives in a way that is clear, empathetic, and appropriate to their individual needs and understanding. Each contact is unique, and you will manage a wide range of cases with professionalism and sensitivity. You will also support staff in dealing with complex or sensitive situations, offering an impartial and independent approach that promotes fair resolution and benefits both patients and staff. This role plays a key part in fostering a culture of openness, trust, and continuous improvement across the organisation.
Please note that interviews for this role will be conducted in person. Virtual interviews via Teams will not be considered.
Main duties of the job
To provide a frontline response to listen to and resolve patients and service users concerns. Liaising with senior managers to coordinate a response and resolution in a responsive and timely way. To support staff in resolving ward based concerns for inpatients by visiting the ward alongside responding to email and telephone enquiries. Liaising with other service providers and signposting to other agencies and services where appropriate. Identifying service improvements and escalating to senior managers for consideration
Our team is driven by common values and vision shaping the service we deliver. Our purpose is to support patients in resolving problems or offering support or signposting at what can be a very difficult time for them. We have to be self motivators, objective and unbiased.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Customer Care or Healthcare NVQ level 3/diploma or equivalent knowledge and experience
Desirable criteria
Experience
Essential criteria
- Computer Literate with a knowledge of email, Internet & Microsoft Office packages including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS teams
- Ability to plan and organise own workload in a busy environment
- Highly developed oral and written skills including letter writing
- Customer Service experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using risk management reporting systems and electronic patient records
Skills
Essential criteria
- Committed to continual learning
- Computer Skills
- Exceptional communication skills and professional manner
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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