Band 3 Hot Floor Administrator

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Hadley; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Ward Clerk at Barnet Hospital, supporting Emergency Department, Urgent Care and Adult Assessment Unit administrative functions. You will provide front‑line reception, handle patient records, and assist with data entry on the patient information system to ensure accurate activity data and timely care.

Working across the ED/UTC and AAU spaces, you will liaise with clinical teams, patients and relatives, uphold data quality

Job description

The Emergency Department (ED), Urgent Care (UTC) and Adult Assessment Unit (AAU) administrator(s) at Barnet Hospital are responsible for providing a front-line reception service and administrative function to the hot floor (ED / UTC + AAU) and for delivering a high standard of customer care to a wide range of client groups, including the ward's multi-disciplinary team, patients, relatives and their carers., The post-holder must play a proactive role in collecting, investigating, verifying and recording a high standard of patient demographic and treatment data. The post holder must accurately and in a timely manner enter such information on the computerised patient information system, to ensure that the trust receives the appropriate level of income for patient activity, avoids the potential clinical risks inherent with inaccurate patient records and is compliant with national NHS targets (e.g. on data quality and length of patient wait).The post-holder must undertake effective forward planning, to ensure that the administrative needs of the service are met and must carry out a range of effective administration processes to support the delivery of high quality patient care. The post holder will be expected to work dynamically across both areas of the hot floor in the ED and AAU clinical spaces.The ward clerk will be directly supervised on a day-to-day basis and is responsible for the

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top