Outpatient Booking Officer

Outpatient Booking Officer

The closing date is 15 March 2026

Fixed Term Opportunity - 12 months - 37.5hrs.

Are you a master of organization with a keen eye for detail? Are you ready for an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in healthcare? Look no further! King's Mill Hospital is thrilled to announce an incredible opening for an Outpatient Booking Officer to join our dynamic team.

In this role, you'll be the linchpin of our outpatient services, ensuring smooth and efficient scheduling for our patients. If you're passionate about providing top‑notch customer service and thrive in a fast‑paced environment, we want to hear from you!

• Booking and cancelling outpatient clinic appointments efficiently and effectively.
• Monitoring the timely sending of essential documents to patients and ensuring correct documentation is received.
• Facilitating appointments for patients discharged from IPT's ward discharges and ICR's.
• Maximising the utilisation of all clinic slots to ensure the best possible patient care.
• Collaborating closely with the BSU and esteemed consultants to ensure patients are booked in a timely manner.
• Regularly updating and maintaining mandatory training to ensure the highest quality of service delivery.
• Offering support to the team whenever necessary, fostering a collaborative and positive work environment.
• Registering ASI dummy referrals on Care Flow, paying particular attention to RTT pathways.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award‑winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other.

We believe that we are truly a clinically‑led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS‑run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Outlook and packages
• Communication with different stakeholders at various levels
• Evidence of team worker
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to prioritise
• Show time management skills
• Willingness to learn and adapt to changes
• Knowledge of 18 weeks pathway
• Knowledge of Medway and NHS in general
• ECDL

• Good standard of education
• Evidence of personal development

• Experience of outpatient services and outpatient booking processes
• Extensive knowledge of Medway
• Customer care experience

• Ability to be flexible with working hours
• Adherence to Trust and departmental policies and procedures
• Ability to work in confidential settings

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust