Ward Clerk (Band 2) - 317 Ward 13 Elderly Care - FH - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Tyne and Wear
We are looking for a dynamic highly motivated Ward Clerk to join the forward-thinking team in Ward 13 Freeman. An exciting opportunity to join our team to help provide efficient support for Older person's medicine. Our Ward clerks provide an invaluable service to the patients and team in Ward 13.
37 hours 30 minutes/week
Basic IT knowledge is essential. Previous experience with e-record and working within a ward clerk environment is desirable. Training will be provided for use on the systems used within the directorate.
The role involves providing a front-line clerical service to clinical staff within the ward, ensuring an appropriate standard of support is delivered in a timely manner. You will provide a meet and greet service to visitors, patients, and staff. A key responsibility for the post holder is to ensure the timely and accurate inputting of data is captured for all admissions, transfers, and discharges of patients.
Additional duties will include stock ordering, supporting the nursing team, and bed management team.
Key Responsibilities:
* To provide and maintain efficient and effective administrative support to the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and multidisciplinary team.
* Contribute to the delivery of a consistently high standard of patient care as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
* Ensures case notes, investigations, X-rays, and results are available for new admissions, ward rounds, and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
* To ensure that case notes are correctly maintained following departmental guidelines and compliance with legislation (Caldicott Guidelines etc.). Ensuring PAS system is up to date and accurate.
* Registration of new patients and all confidential information relevant to same.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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