• Hours: Part time (30 or 35 hours per week)
• Salary: £12.71 per hour
• Contract: Permanent
• Holiday Entitlement: 22 days (full time equivalent) after 5 years continuous service entitlement will increase to 25 days.
• Location: You will be based at one site but must be flexible to cover at our other sites as required.

Overview

The Partnership is highly supportive with a strong sense of ‘team’, continually striving for improving the healthcare and well-being of our registered patients. This is an exciting time to join our organisation as we strive to give our community excellent patient care.

We are currently recruiting for full time and part time Medical Receptionists. You will be based at one site but must be flexible to cover at our other sites as required. The successful candidate must be available to work either of the following shift patterns:

The successful candidate will be a professional and committed individual with relevant experience working in a front-of-house capacity, previous experience in a GP surgery is desirable but not essential as long as the candidate can demonstrate suitability and a passion for patient / customer care for the role in their covering letter & CV.

Receptionists are responsible for undertaking a wide range of reception and administrative duties and the provision of general support to the multidisciplinary team. Duties can include but are not limited to, greeting and directing patients, patient registration, booking appointments, processing of information and assisting patients as required. You are the central point of contact for patients and distributing information, messages and enquiries for the clinical team.

The role requires a high percentage of telephone work. The ability to be flexible and work between different sites is desirable. Excellent communication skills and telephone manner are essential, coupled with fast & accurate computer/keyboard skills.

If you want to be part of a forward thinking Partnership where everyone is important, and the entire team collaborate to ensure the practices run smoothly and effectively, apply today.

How to apply

Please email your CV and a covering to sxicb-wsx.ahp.recruitment@nhs.net

For more information about the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Interview Date

TBC

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time once we receive sufficient applications and encourage all interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

• Hours: Full time - 37hrs per week, Monday to Friday
• Salary: From £27,000 per annum (approx. £14.00 per hour), dependent on experience

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self-motivated Patient Experience Manager to champion the Patient Voice of our local community. We are looking for a highly organised individual who is passionate about working with patients and staff and the wider voluntary and community sector to ensure that the Patient Experience at Adur Health Partnership is the best it can be.

The post holder will be required to support Adur Health Partnership’s efforts to foster outstanding patient experience and engagement and will be an active and enthusiastic member of the practice team, leading on patient experience and engagement, encouraging the patient voice and coordinating diverse patient feedback and engagement through a variety of methods.

Candidates must be conscientious and compassionate, and have the confidence to work autonomously as well as being part of a wider practice team, and be proficient in Microsoft software (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams).

Job Summary

The post-holder is responsible for the coordination of all aspects of AHP’s patient feedback, including comments, compliments and complaints, patient participation groups and patient engagement, leading on a range of initiatives, providing management support to ensure that we involve and listen to our patients, relatives and carers, thereby enabling them to feedback effectively at different points in their journey.

Working with AHP’s Senior Leadership Team, made up of nine GP Partners, a Managing Partner and three Executive Directors, the Patient Experience Manager will ensure that statutory and organisational requirements are met, and that complaint handling delivers the best outcome for the patient and optimal learning for the organisation. The post-holder will analyse trends and themes in relation to patient feedback, complaints and compliments ensuring that action plans are developed, agreed, implemented & evaluated, and will work with a broad range of stakeholders, facilitating effective communication at all levels to deliver successful outcomes.

You will also be the forefront of our Social wellbeing activities and working with our Practice Champions to promote current activities, and use your initiative to come up with new activities which will benefit our patients.

The post-holder will support the Executive team in promoting Equality Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I), Safety, Health, Environment and Fire (SHEF), Quality & Continuous Improvement, Confidentiality, Collaborative Working, Service Delivery, Learning and Development and carry out other duties as directed by the Executive team.

This is a key role within our practice team. The post holder will primarily be based at Shoreham Health Centre but will be expected to travel between 3 other sites across Shoreham and Southwick regularly and may work at other sites from time to time.

Practice Overview

Our mission at Adur Health Partnership is to support and improve the health and well-being of the community we serve. We want to do this by providing a resilient, sustainable and thriving general practice service to our community, working with our patients to provide care which is high quality, individualised, responsive, effective and efficient. We want to reduce health inequalities through personalised and proactive work, working closely with other health and social care providers, with a clear commitment to inter-professional team engagement and MDT working in collaboration with partners and patients. We strive to work with our staff to create an environment that encourages continual improvement and innovation, with a focus on wellbeing and shared learning, to allow us to provide the best possible care to our patients.

The partnership consists of 9 doctors and one Managing Partner, and the practice serves a population of over 36,000 patients across Shoreham and Southwick, across four practice premises. The practice employs a comprehensive interdisciplinary team of professionals who will consistently strive to exceed patient expectations to ensure their experience at the practice is as comfortable and stress-free as possible.

How to apply

Informal visits are welcomed. For further information and to arrange an informal visit please contact our HR Team by email sxicb-wsx.ahp.hr@nhs.net or call 01273 466 086.