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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

About
Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Patient Liaison Officer- International and Private Patients
Closed for applications on: 11-Dec-2023 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Dec-2023 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals
- Address
- Westminster Bridge Road, London,
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7am-7pm shift patterns required.)
Salary
- Salary
- £34,089 - £41,498 pa inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- International and Private Patients
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
International and Private Patients Liaison Officer
Guys and St Thomas’ has ambitious plans to develop its private patient services and improve processes to support patient care and significantly increase income. This post is an exciting opportunity to join the International and Private Patients service working alongside clinicians and patients to provide a high quality.
Reporting to the International Service Manager for private healthcare, this role will be responsible for providing interpreting and liaison support to the patients and families, consultants, medical staff and other multidisciplinary professionals that have input in the care and management of Arabic-speaking private patients at Guys and St Thomas'.
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The Private Patient Liaison Officer will also be responsible for providing an excellent liaison service to support both existing and new relationships with local Middle East Health Offices and other third parties who refer patients for private medical care.
The post holder will be expected to work with referring organisations in order to streamline access to Trust services and assist in managing patient pathways efficiently and offer a high-quality patient experience.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing team and have direct impact on patient care for Arabic speaking patients referred to GSTT.
Working for our organisation
Following the merger of GSTT and Royal Brompton & Harefield in February 2021, private patient services within the combined trusts have merged to create one of the largest private patient teams within the NHS. Guys and St Thomas' Specialist Care provides a unique offering of specialist services across multiple sites and with significant plans to expand in the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deliver professional Arabic interpreting & translation services within both clinical and non-clinical settings involving private patients, families, consultants, other clinical staff and managers.
To support the delivery of an effective and responsive liaison service between private patients, hospital administration teams, consultants, and local Embassies/Health Offices.
To support Guys and St Thomas' Specialist Care through active relationship building with Embassies and Health Offices by promoting clinical services, specialties and Consultants, in order to increase the contribution that private patient services make to NHS services.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or experience.
- Professional Arabic Interpreting, translation qualifications or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrable capability and capacity for service delivery in a large, complex acute hospital environment.
Desirable criteria
- Multilingual translation qualifications. Good medical terminology knowledge
- Evidence of continual professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with Embassy-sponsored adult and paediatric patients within a private healthcare setting.
- Knowledge and experience of developing relationships and referral pathways in a healthcare setting.
- Proven ability to liaise effectively within a multidisciplinary team based environment.
- Experience of providing interpreting and translation services
Desirable criteria
- Lived and worked in the Middle East.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to write and speak fluently in both English and Arabic languages
- Knowledge of the MENA countries and in depth knowledge of Arabic cultural and expectations.
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills, coupled with diplomacy and tact
- Ability and willingness to handle confidential information without compromising confidentiality or trust.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the UK private healthcare market and the NHS/PP challenging environment.
- Knowledge of the Middle east Healthcare markets.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Aala Mustafa
- Job title
- International Private Patient Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071887188
- Additional information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Aala Mustafa- International Private Patient Service Manager at: [email protected]
Or
Lewis Humphrey- Business Development Manager- International and Private Patients at: lewis.humphrey @gstt.nhs.uk
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