Job overview
Maternity is based in the Womens Centre on the JR site and forms part of Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The service is made up of Midwifery, Obstetrics & Ultrasound.
The Maternal Medicine Service for the Thames Valley and local Oxford patients is based on Level of the Women’s Centre.
We are a specialist tertiary level referral centre providing diagnosis, counselling and treatment for pregnant women across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Northamptonshire and Wiltshire.
We care for women with pre-existing complex medical needs or when medical problems that arise during their pregnancy.
Our aim is to provide a safe & positive experience for our patients before, during & after their pregnancy & delivery.
Main duties of the job
·Co-ordinating, monitoring and initiating appropriate changes within administrative processes along the patient pathway to ensure the patient’s journey is managed efficiently, smoothly and in accordance with targets and agreed timescales.
·Communicating complex information regarding specialist pathways to all levels within the organisation including medical staff.
·Organisation & coordination of MDT meetings.
·Minute Taking.
·Maintaining an accurate and current filing system, ensuring letters, clinical reports, diagnostic test results and other notes are filed in the correct patient notes, in either paper or electronic record systems.
·Following the Trust tracking procedure for the movement of all patient notes
·Induction of trainee Doctors
·Assisting with the ongoing digitalisation of admin services with Maternity
·Facilitating effective communication between team members
·Ensuring that all telephone enquiries to the team are handled politely and sympathetically, ensuring that all messages are passed on to the appropriate person in a timely and accurate manner which may often involve dealing with difficult and distressed patients whilst overcoming barriers to communication
·Implementing Trust and team policies/procedures if necessary
·Maintaining the clinician facing and client facing websites
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .
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If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.