Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced Patient Pathway Administrator to join our Children’s Community Nursing Team (CCNT), supporting children and young people across Redbridge. This newly developed collaborative service operates within the Children’s Directorate, working closely alongside the Children’s Community Nursing Services in Barking and Havering to deliver high-quality, family-centred care.
The successful candidate will provide comprehensive administrative support to the CCNT, including managing referrals, communicating with families, booking appointments via electronic patient records, and arranging supplies and equipment required for home-based care. Excellent communication skills, a positive approach to service development, and a compassionate, patient-focused attitude are essential. This role is ideal for an enthusiastic and dynamic administrator, with ongoing professional development actively encouraged and supported.
Our busy Children’s Services operate across Queen’s Hospital in Romford and King George’s Hospital in Ilford, delivering a wide range of inpatient, outpatient, emergency, neonatal, and community services. The role will be led by a new Band 8a Lead Nurse for Children’s Community Nursing and supported by a strong multidisciplinary and senior nursing team. Staff benefit from robust corporate training, in-house leadership programmes, and partnerships with universities to support career progression and academic development.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide a flexible administrative support service across the department as required by workload demands. It is essential that the post holder has good communication skills, is organised and assertive in dealing with patients, carers and health professionals. The post holder must maintain a high degree of confidentiality in all aspects of service delivery and patient information in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and compliance with the Data Protection Act. The post holder must also have good data input and general keyboard/word processing skills.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Educated to GCSE level with a minimum of a C in English.
Desirable criteria
2. NVQ level 3 in relevant subject or equivalent level of proven experience
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
3. Demonstrated relevant experience working in a similar role.
4. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
Desirable criteria
5. Knowledge of Cerner/RIO
6. Experience of monitoring patient pathways.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
7. Demonstrate Excellent communication skills with all levels of staff and patients
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.