Rotational Ward Clerk

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in Ashton-under-Lyne seeks a highly motivated Rotational Ward Clerk to join their team. The role includes providing essential administrative support across a variety of shifts in inpatient services, ensuring accurate patient record management. Candidates should have excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly with a supportive and enthusiastic team. A competitive benefits package is offered, including training and pension schemes.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Training development opportunities

On-site Occupational Health Service

Qualifications

• Confident and flexible individual with customer care and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team.
• Experience with administrative duties in a healthcare environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to inpatient services.
• Update the Trust Electronic Patient Record (Lorenzo EPR) in real time.
• Ensure patient case notes are maintained accurately.

Job description

Are you a confident, and flexible person, with excellent engagement, customer care, and communication skills, who can work as part of a creative and motivated team? If you are, we would really like to hear from you!

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and caring individual to join our Rotational Ward Clerk Team, who likes variety and is able to work flexibly, efficiently and independently to support a range of services.

The Rotational Ward Clerk role provides essential cover for the administrative roles that support our inpatient services here at Tameside Hospital; this will include; in patient Wards, Same Day Emergency Care & Early Pregnancy patient receptions, as well as general and specialist administration.

There are a variety of shift patterns between the hours of 7:00am and 9:00pm across a 7 day footprint and the successful candidate must be flexible to work across these hours/day including bank holidays etc., Providing a comprehensive ward reception and administration service, the post holder will, in collaboration with other ward staff, support patients, relatives and other staff members as a first point of contact.

The Ward clerk will update the Trust Electronic Patient Record (Lorenzo EPR) accurately and in real time whilst also ensuring patient case notes are available and appropriately maintained throughout each admission.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute. Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, a protected training budget for staff and support for flexible working.

We have an on-site Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have fast track access to physio, counselling and complimentary therapies.

Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity.

Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.

Equal Opportunities

The Trust is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to making a difference to the environment and have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence.

Please note that whilst the trust does offer sponsorship this role is unfortunately not eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Health and Care Worker visa route.