Ward Clerk

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Bedford; Vor Ort; GBP 20.000 - 23.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust invites two Ward Clerks to join our Ward Clerk team at Bedford Hospital on a float basis. You will provide frontline clerical support to clinical staff and assist patients and relatives during visits, while ensuring accurate data input into clinical systems.

The role requires GCSE-level education or equivalent, experience in customer-facing/reception roles, and familiarity with using IT packages.

Qualifikationen

• Educated to GSCE standard or equivalent.
• Experience Of Working In a Customer Facing/reception Role
• Experience of using IT package

Aufgaben

• Provide frontline clerical service to clinical staff within the ward and support patients and relatives during visits.
• Input patient level data into clinical systems for admissions, discharges and transfers with data quality and governance adherence.
• Manage workload flexibly and cover across wards as the role develops with business needs.]
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Kenntnisse

GSCE standard

Customer facing

IT package

Jobbeschreibung

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Ward Clerks at Bedford Hospital, working as a Float within our Ward Clerk team. You will have interaction with patients and relatives as well as staff based at Bedford Hospital. You will be an organised, efficient and motivated individual who is trustworthy and reliable. You must be able to be adaptable within your work role to support the team in all aspects of ward administrative cover.

This is an exciting team that will give you the opportunity to grow and develop. The team consists of ward clerks and receptionists that work together sharing their knowledge and experience.

Although we have a very strong learning and development function, we appreciate you will need to have acquired some skills and experience from your career in order for your time with us to be a real success. These can be found in the Person and Job Description attachment on NHS Jobs.

However we have highlighted some of them below.

Educated to GSCE standard or equivalent

Experience Of Working In a Customer Facing/reception Role

Experience of using IT package

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a ward clerk at Bedford Hospital.

• To provide both a front line clerical service to clinical staff within the ward whilst also providing “front door” style support to patients and relatives during visits.
• The post holder will also be responsible for ensuring accurate and timely inputting of patient level data into the relevant clinical systems for the capturing of admission, discharge and transfer of patients. This is to be done whilst also strictly adhering to trust data quality, health records and information governance policies.
• It is expected that the post-holder will manage their workload in an effective and efficient way and have a flexible approach to covering various wards and the role as it continues to develop with the ever changing needs of the business.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarika Nahar Job title: Patient Access Admin Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01234 355122

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