Patient Care Advisor - RTT Tracker
| Posting date: | 20 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2026 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE27 0QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 8012669/319-8012669GH |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Patient Care Advisor to join the Contact Centre RTT Tracking Team.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and conscientious individual to work within the team who can deliver an efficient and accurate service for our patients.
This is a unique and interesting administrative role in which you will help track patients from their referral to their treatment. This role helps validate the information used to track our progress as part of the NHS Recovery Plan.
Full time or part time hours may be considered.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
"Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made."
• Play an integral part in the achievement of National and Local targets.
• Act as administrative support in the provision of active pathway monitoring throughout the patient's journey providing support to clinicians, management and clerical staff to ensure patients are provided with equal access to admission to the services of the Trust
• Ensure accurate information is stored about patients and pathways and that this information is checked and updated regularly.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Key responsibilities include;
• To liaise closely with patients and staff involved in the patients care in a variety of inbound and outbound formats (including telephone, email and in-person) and provide NHS services to provide excellence in patient care.
• Process patient appointments, referrals and surgery using a variety of trust systems in line with NHS patient access standards.
• Communicates regularly with patients by phone offering choice when booking patient appointments, dealing with queries from patients will can include challenging behaviour.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of issues relating to confidentiality and when dealing with sensitive situations.
• A desire to develop both the service and yourself and to make the service known as “the best” as it grows and becomes more widely used.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Jun 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Patient Care Advisor to join the Contact Centre RTT Tracking Team.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and conscientious individual to work within the team who can deliver an efficient and accurate service for our patients.
This is a unique and interesting administrative role in which you will help track patients from their referral to their treatment. This role helps validate the information used to track our progress as part of the NHS Recovery Plan.
Full time or part time hours may be considered.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
"Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made."
• Play an integral part in the achievement of National and Local targets.
• Act as administrative support in the provision of active pathway monitoring throughout the patient's journey providing support to clinicians, management and clerical staff to ensure patients are provided with equal access to admission to the services of the Trust
• Ensure accurate information is stored about patients and pathways and that this information is checked and updated regularly.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Key responsibilities include;
• To liaise closely with patients and staff involved in the patients care in a variety of inbound and outbound formats (including telephone, email and in-person) and provide NHS services to provide excellence in patient care.
• Process patient appointments, referrals and surgery using a variety of trust systems in line with NHS patient access standards.
• Communicates regularly with patients by phone offering choice when booking patient appointments, dealing with queries from patients will can include challenging behaviour.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of issues relating to confidentiality and when dealing with sensitive situations.
• A desire to develop both the service and yourself and to make the service known as “the best” as it grows and becomes more widely used.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Jun 2026