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University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

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For your NHS career, think UHS

As one of one of England's largest acute teaching trusts, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) can help you to achieve your career aspirations, whatever your discipline.

We're one of only a few trusts in the UK that have the ability to care for people before their birth through to the end of life, providing almost every specialism they could need along the way, 24/7. We employ more than 11,500 staff delivering services to over 1.9 million people within our specialist care groups, children’s hospital, and major trauma centre.

Because UHS is essentially a micro city, we can offer almost every job imaginable. Some require a medical background, such as nurses, allied health professionals (AHPs) and healthcare scientists, but there are also plumbers, electricians, porters, secretaries and catering experts, as well as finance, communications, HR and informatics specialists.

Whatever role you're interested in, we can offer fantastic training and development giving you the best possible opportunities to achieve the career you want.

Our values guide the work we do every day, they are:

Patients first
Patients and families will be at the heart of what we do and their experience within the hospital, and their perception of the Trust will be our measure of success.

Working together
Our clinical teams will provide services to patients and are crucial to our success. We have launched a leadership strategy that ensures our clinical management teams are engaged in the day-to-day management and governance of the Trust.

Always improving
Our reputation is research and development and our approach to education and training will continue to incorporate new ideas, technologies greater efficiencies in the service we provide.

Our careers website

If you'd like to find out more about UHS, the benefits we offer our employees, or if you are thinking of moving to the Hampshire area and would like some guidance, head to

https://careers.uhs.nhs.uk/Why-UHS/About-the-Trust/COVID-19-UPDATE.aspx

for more information.

Contact

Address: Southampton General Hospital; Tremona Road; Southampton; Hampshire; SO16 6YD
Contact Number: 023 8120 6525

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Ref: 188-AC211024 Vacancy ID: 6764788

Access Manager

Closed for applications on: 14-Nov-2024 00:01

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 14-Nov-2024 00:01

Location

Site: Southampton General Hospital
Address: Tremona Road
Town: Southampton
Postcode: SO16 6YD
Major / Minor Region: Hampshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Part time

37.5 hours per week

Salary

Grade: Band 6

Specialty

Main area: Administrative and Clerical

Interview date: 27/11/2024

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Some duties of the role include:
1. Communicate and disseminate complex information and issues, including briefings and reports as required.

2. Ensure all standard operating procedures and policies are followed, maintained and updated in line with national and local guidance and best practice.

3. Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of performance and to improve quality, productivity and efficiency of services, highlighting trends and anomalies as appropriate.

4. Provide guidance and act as a subject matter expert on the Trust Access policy and act as the point of reference for queries relating to patient pathways.

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for individuals with excellent communication skills, the ability to work well under pressure, a flexible team player and a desire to provide a first-class service for patients and clinical teams. You must be confident, diplomatic and able to work in a busy environment with a pleasant disposition. You will need to have a flexible approach to a demanding workload and changing priorities.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

For more information about our Trust

https://careers.uhs.nhs.uk

Getting to work - our travel promise

Getting to work should be as easy as possible and that’s why we have introduced the UHS travel promise – a commitment from the Trust that we will provide reasonable travel options for every member of staff. Every member of staff can apply for a permit to use our park & ride facility. Eligibility for on-site parking is dependent on the nature and requirement of the role. All staff can also access a range of discounted benefits relating to travel including reduced price bus tickets, purchase of salary sacrifice bikes and ultra-low emission cars.

Our commitment to equality

Equality remains at the centre of our policymaking, service delivery, and employment practice, giving all employees equal opportunity to develop, apply for promotions, and have working arrangements that enable them to achieve a manageable work-life balance.

UHS actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for managers and staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development, and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status and age.

How and why we use your information

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person specification

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

Educated to degree standard or equivalent level of experience
Significant operational and service management experience and knowledge to a post graduate level
Experience in developing and implementing service changes
Able to demonstrate the use of software to create reports using software such as SQL, BI and QlikView

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of medical terminology
Knowledge of hospital systems and processes ie eCaMIS, eReferral, Apex
Demonstrate a sound knowledge of RTT and cancer targets
Quality, service improvement and redesign programme or equivalent qualification
Experience of developing programmes/systems that monitor and improve efficiency or safety