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About
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Synnovis is a scientific organisation with a clinical purpose. In partnership with our service partners, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, King’s College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital, we aim to set the standard for the future of pathology.
Contact
SYNLABOpen Monday to Friday
9am to 5pm
Telephone
01629 702342
Complaints & Service Improvement Coordinator
Accepting applications until: 19-Aug-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 19-Aug-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Friars Bridge Court
- Cyfeiriad
- 41-43 Blackfriars Road
- Tref
- London
- Cod post
- SE1 8NZ
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Customer Services & Logistics
The place to work in pathology
We are looking for top talent to join the UK’s leading and fastest growing pathology company – a scientific organisation with a clinical purpose.
Working in partnership with our service partners, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, King’s College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital we aim to set the standard for the future of pathology.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Synnovis is looking for a Complaints & Service Improvement Coordinator to join our Customer Services and Logistics Department.
You will join a multidisciplinary team of around 24 professionals, bringing together a wide range of experience and expertise. Working closely with laboratories, clinical teams, NHS Trust partners, and third party customers
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The Complaints & Service Improvement Coordinator plays a key role in supporting the effective operation of the Customer Services Department, with a balanced focus on complaint handling, insight, and continuous improvement. This role supports how Synnovis listens to patients and customers, investigates concerns, and uses feedback to strengthen services and prevent issues from recurring.
You will be highly organised and solution focused, able to manage multiple cases and priorities while maintaining accuracy, empathy, and attention to detail. Working within the complaints pathway, you will coordinate and support the investigation of complaints relating to Synnovis services across NHS Trusts, Primary Care, and third party customers.
You will work closely with clinical, laboratory, operational, and corporate teams to ensure responses are timely, evidence based, compliant, and recorded accurately using CRM systems such as ServiceNow.
Beyond individual case resolution, you will play an active role in service improvement. You will analyse complaints and feedback data to identify trends, systemic issues, and emerging risks, maintain accurate SharePoint records, and support the development of compliance dashboards and reporting. You will contribute to corrective and preventive actions and wider service improvement initiatives, helping to translate learning from complaints into strengthened processes, improved communication, and better customer experience across the department.
This is a collaborative role, well suited to someone who thrives in a fast paced environment, enjoys problem solving, and is motivated by seeing investigation and insight lead to practical, measurable improvements. For the right candidate, it offers the opportunity to develop strong investigation, stakeholder management, and service improvement skills while making a meaningful impact on patient and customer experience.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Synnovis is a scientific organisation with a clear clinical purpose, delivering high quality pathology and diagnostic services in partnership with leading NHS Trusts, including Guy’s & St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital, and Princess Royal University Hospital. As part of SYNLAB Group, Europe’s leading laboratory diagnostics provider, Synnovis supports care for millions of patients across South East London and beyond.
What sets Synnovis apart is the scale and complexity of the services we deliver, combined with a strong focus on learning, improvement, and patient experience. Here, complaints and feedback are not treated as administrative tasks; they are actively used to improve services, influence decision making, and strengthen quality and governance. This gives employees a real opportunity to see how their work drives meaningful change.
You will join a diverse and supportive Customer Services and Logistics team, working closely with laboratories, clinical services, and NHS partners. Unlike smaller organisations, Synnovis offers exposure to a wide range of services, stakeholders, and cases, helping you build valuable experience that is transferable across healthcare and other regulated environments.
We offer a professional yet welcoming environment, with clear support for development through The ACCE Competencies Programme, enabling both personal and career growth. Synnovis is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and to creating a workplace where people feel valued, supported, and empowered to make a genuine difference.
Your development and learning
You will have a suite of learning opportunities available through The ACCE competencies programme, which is used across Synnovis to enable you to reach your potential, learn new skills and achieve your goals.
This is managed between you and your line manager in line with your own personal and professional development ambitions.
You can apply for finance to drive innovation and service development for the benefit of patients through our Innovation Accelerator Fund.
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Complaints Handling & Investigation
• Coordinate and support complaint investigations across Synnovis services, including patients, NHS Trusts, Primary Care, and third party customers.
• Work with internal stakeholders to gather factual information, evidence, and statements to support fair, accurate, and timely investigations.
• Ensure all concerns raised by complainants are clearly addressed within the investigation outcomes and response letters.
• Support the Customer Services Management team in maintaining compliance with complaint policies, procedures, and required turnaround times.
• Provide guidance to teams on complaint handling best practice, professional communication, and de escalation of sensitive situations.
Service Improvement & Learning
• Analyse data to identify recurring trends, wider issues, and opportunities for improvement across departments processes
• Actively contribute to service improvement and efficiency initiatives by translating complaints learning into corrective and preventive actions, process changes, and recommendations for improvement.
• Maintain complaints and departmental systems, and support the development and use of dashboards, reports, and metrics to provide visibility of performance, trends, and improvement impact.
• Help embed learning across teams to improve consistency, communication, and service quality.
Synnovis is a pathology partnership between SYNLAB UK and Ireland, and the NHS, including sites, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver and transform pathology services across South East London.
The partnership provides services to 1.7 million people living in South East London, as well as to hundreds of thousands of patients from outside the region who use local healthcare services. The partnership provides diagnostics, testing and digital pathology for hospital trusts, GP services and other healthcare providers.
The Hub
The successful candidate will be based at The Hub, Synnovis’ modern corporate headquarters, which brings together our central support functions above our operational laboratory services.
The hub is an eight-storey building, and we are working across 10 floors, including the ground and lower ground floors. Synnovis’ corporate function operates from the hub on the 8th floor, above the laboratories underneath. This is a total net internal area of almost 10,000m squared across the 10 floors.
Based in Blackfriars, it’s less than a 5-minute walk from Southwark Tube or Blackfriars station and nestled closely to a vast array of entertainment and fabulous places to dine, relax and meet people.
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. All applicants are welcome to apply regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, nationality or ethnic origin, religion, or sexual orientation. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
Our Bank workers enjoy competitive market rates and flexible contract assignments across all of our sites, dependent on your availability and location.
For our Permanent workforce we offer a competitive benefits package.
All employees are entitled to:
- Contributory pension scheme
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Ground breaking development
opportunities
Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Please apply for this post on-line. If you have problems with using the online process, or need any assistance, please email [email protected]
Your e-mail address is important to us. We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis.
Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
If you decide to apply for this post but do not hear back from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short-listed on this occasion.
Thank you for your interest in Synnovis.
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Educated to a good GCSE level or equivalent
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience in investigating customer concerns
- Previous experience of using LIMS
- Experience of MS packages
- Experience in using Customer Records Management (CRM) systems
Meini prawf dymunol
- Report writing and presentation
- Use of Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA) implementation through investigations
- Previous experience of working in a pathology laboratory, or hospital environment
Skills & Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written communication
- Able to work to multiple tasks and deadlines and prioritise workload
- Ability to use their own initiative
- Accuracy and attention to detail
Meini prawf dymunol
- Ability to adapt to Internal and external stakeholder management
- Experience working within Primary Care, pathology, or healthcare services.
- Experience supporting service improvement or quality initiatives.
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Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Henry Ofodidon
- Teitl y swydd
- Customer Service Team Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- SYNLAB
- Open Monday to Friday
- 9am to 5pm
- Telephone
- 01629 702342
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