Health Records Facilitator

NHS; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Grimsby seeks Health Records Facilitators to join their team. The role entails organizing and preparing health records for hospital activities, working under tight deadlines, and ensuring confidentiality in adherence to regulations. Applicants should have good communication and organizational skills. This position emphasizes team collaboration and requires a certain level of physical fitness for handling records. The trust offers flexible working opportunities to foster a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive working environment

Commitment to staff well-being

Qualifications

• Experience in a healthcare setting is beneficial.
• Ability to prioritize tasks in a busy environment.
• Understanding of Data Protection regulations.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Health Records for hospital activities.
• Liaise with colleagues and departments professionally.
• Ensure confidentiality of patient information.

Skills

Effective communication

Organizational skills

Ability to work under pressure

Fitness for handling records

Job description

Go back Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Health Records Facilitator

The closing date is 11 January 2026

An opportunity has arisen for two Health Records Facilitators to join the Health Records Department Team. As a Health Records Facilitator the post holder will be required to work as part of a team within the Health Records Department to ensure the effective organisation and preparation of Health Records for all hospital activity. The post holder will need to have the ability to work reactively and to tight timescales and be able to prioritise a busy workload. This post requires a certain level of fitness due to the physical aspects of the role with regards to the use of trolley's, ladders and lifting and handling of records.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to liaise effectively with colleagues and other departments within the hospital in a professional and pleasant manner and to ensure the confidentiality of information and patient details is adhered to at all times, in accordance with the Data Protection Act, Caldicott guidelines and other Trust Policies and procedures.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work‑life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work‑life balance or a multi‑role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work‑life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well‑being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line