Patient Administrator - Admissions | Spire Murrayfield Hospital - Edinburgh | Bank

Spire Murrayfield Hospital in Edinburgh is currently looking to recruit a Patient Administrator to join their Admissions department on a bank basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic team and have a great impact.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Maintain and update patient records on the hospital computer system, primarily reservation arrangements of day-case and in-patient admissions
• Answer telephone and email enquiries from patients, consultants and colleagues in a timely and efficient manner
• Ensure medical records are available for all pre-operative assessment appointments, liaising with medical records where necessary and preparing all paperwork associated with the assessment
• Ensure all patients are booked in a timely manner ahead of their procedure
• Book all pre-operative assessment appointments for patients attending for surgical procedures at Murrayfield and Shawfair Park Hospitals
• Prior to admission ensure all authorisation is in place for insured patients, or payment has been received for self-funding patients.

Who we're looking for:

• Previous relevant experience in an administrative support role
• Comfortable working to deadlines and ability to work under pressure
• A real team player
• Strong IT skills 
• Previous experience in healthcare
• Basic understanding of medical terminology would be a distinct advantage

Benefits:

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications