Junior Patient Transport Assessment Officer

Job overview

The role of Junior Patient Transport Assessment Officer is to support and facilitate the effective use of Non-Emergency Patient Transport by the Trust. This is critical to both the effective flow of patients to and from the hospital as well as ensuring support is provided to eligible patients. The post-holder will work as part of a team to assess patients and support other staff to use this service properly.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be responsible for undertaking patient transport eligibility assessments in order to facilitate the efficient and effective running of our Non-Emergency Patient Transport service.

The role will primarily involve telephone assessments from both hospital and community patients, escalating as required and working with the senior members of the team to develop and enhance the service we provide to patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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