The Child Health Information Clerk will be responsible for maintaining complex and sensitive, confidential information within the Child Health System, for pre-school and school children including the input of patient registrations and associated activity for child health.
Package DescriptionAs a Band 3 CHIS Administrator, you’ll be part of our valued team.
You will feel valued as an administrator within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£22,308 pro rata with group pension
Home based but would be required to travel to Preston or other Lancashire Hubs on occasion
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main ResponsibilitiesThis post is responsible for:
The validation and monitoring of data received.
Liaising with individual professional staff in the event of missing or erroneous data.
Dealing appropriately with telephone enquiries from GP practices, providers, parents, and other external organisations.
Performing administrative duties taking in account departmental procedures.
Production of standard reports as required and the confidential processing and transfer of child records for movements in and out of the area.
Scheduling of appointments for child health vaccination and immunisations and surveillance.
Understanding clinical systems within CHIS.
For a full list of responsibilities please see attached job spec.
The Ideal CandidateEssential
You must be computer literate to ECDL level or equivalent.
Have experience using Microsoft office packages.
Excellent team working abilities.
Must be able to work using own initiative.
Have a willingness to learn about Child Health services.
Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department.
You will the ability to demonstrate an understanding of equal opportunities.
Must be willing to undertake DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) clearance.
Desirable
Previous experience working in or with the NHS.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.