Radiology Appointments Co-ordinator

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Radiology Appointments Co-ordinator

The closing date is 15 March 2026

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a dedicated and efficient Radiology Appointments Co ordinator to join our team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring high quality patient care by managing an efficient appointment system and supporting the Radiology Clerical Services Manager. This position requires working across multiple sites including King's Mill Hospital, Newark Hospital, and CDC.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide a high-quality service to patients attending the X Ray Department by managing an efficient appointments system, considering modernisation requirements for new "booking" methods.
• Support the Radiology Clerical Services Manager by monitoring waiting times for radiology activities in line with local and national targets.
• Ensure the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.
• Create and monitor rotas, ensuring the CRIS diary reflects the availability and clinic skills of radiologists and sonographers.
• Monitor diagnostic waiting lists, prioritise 2WW patients, and escalates capacity issues.
• Liaise with radiologists and sonographers, managing any necessary list cancellations at short notice.
• Book complex radiology procedures according to booking protocols.
• Be part of a team that values excellence and continuous improvement in patient care. Apply today and make a meaningful impact in the Radiology Department at Sherwood Forest Hospitals!

Main duties of the job

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

About us

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.

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Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification Knowledge Requirements

• Computer literate, with Substantive Keyboard experience.
• Substantial knowledge of RIS, PAS and NHS in general
• RSAIII or ECDL

Qualifications

• A good standard of education

Further Training

• Development training as required

Experience

• Significant Clerical experience
• Experience in customer care
• Service redesign
• Waiting list management with experience in diagnostic waiting times
• Experience of working in X Ray Department
• Knowledge of 2 week wait and 18 week wait
• NVQ in Customer Care
• IHRIM

Contractual Requirements

• Regular attendance and willingness to work flexibly, both in terms of hours and location within the X Ray/ Patient Services Department.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum pro rata