Employer Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type NHS
Site East Surrey Hospital
Town Redhill
Salary £9,446 per annum plus high cost allowance
Salary period Yearly
Closing 01/01/2025 23:59
Interview date 16/01/2025
Ward Clerk - Leigh Ward
NHS AfC: Band 2
We want to give you the best possible experience in the next stage of your career.
As part of the Ward Team, the Ward Clerk is responsible for providing administrative support on the Ward to ensure the smooth running of the Ward for patients, visitors, and staff. The post holder will work with staff of all disciplines on the ward and other hospital staff as necessary to ensure an efficient service. The Ward Clerk will play a pivotal role in handling the initial enquiries from patients, relatives, and other multidisciplinary colleagues and will ensure that excellent customer service principles are applied, with issues escalated in a timely manner.
Main duties of the job
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Criteria
* Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
* A complete and accurate application
* Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
* Evidence of essential experience for role
* Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
* Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
* Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
* Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification
We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workforce and actively encourage applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, race and ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process.
Successful candidates will be appointed to the first pay step within the band when they start with the Trust (unless they have previous relevant NHS continuous service), thereafter individuals will progress up the pay steps in accordance with NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) terms and conditions. For part-time roles you will receive a pro rata'd (proportional) salary payment based on the appropriate pay step/point and hours worked in accordance with AfC and all medical and dental terms and conditions.
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust operate a 24 hour 365 day a year service and all nursing, clinical and operational roles will require staff to work 24/7 shifts (if required) unless you are specifically advised otherwise as part of the recruitment process.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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