Ward Clerk- Critical care

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Bedford; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic administrator to support the critical care service at Bedford Hospital. You will provide front line clerical support to clinical staff within the ward while also assisting patients and relatives during visits.

You will be responsible for accurate inputting of patient level data into the relevant clinical systems, ensuring data quality and governance, and you may travel between hospital sites as the role evolves.

Responsibilities

• Front line clerical service to clinical staff within the ward
• Provide front door style support to patients and relatives during visits
• Accurate inputting of patient level data into clinical systems ensuring data quality and governance
• Manage workload with a flexible approach as the role develops with changing needs of the business

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic person to support the administrative functions to smoothly run a critical care service at Bedford Hospital.

Our adult Critical care service provides an integrated level 1, 2, and 3 Critical Care service with 6 level 3 and 4 Level 2 Critical care beds in a purpose built unit and 24/7 level 1 service.

Our unit is exciting, challenging and supportive and you will be working as part of highly skilled dynamic and friendly team not only committed to patient care but also ensuring health and wellbeing of staff. Access to programmes of high quality training and development to help you grow in your career.

You will be based within the critical care unit

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 by 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 CCC 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 dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, 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: Marie I. V. Coutinho E Gouveia Job title: Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01234792257