Ward Clerk -Band 2 | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,383 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Warwick, CV34 5QW |
| Company: | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6201154/444-6201154-CG |
Summary
We are looking to recruit to an administrative support role based on an in-patient acute mental health ward at St Michael’s Hospital, Warwick. This is an in-patient unit caring for adults suffering from a wide range of mental health disorders.
We are looking for someone who is friendly and approachable with great communication skills, who can build good working relationships within a fast-paced environment. As well as being a team player, we seek applicants who can demonstrate sensitivity/confidentiality due to the nature of the service and are able to work autonomously with a flexible approach and strong work ethic to prioritise and multi-task.
We require applicants to share our vision to become an innovative, forward-thinking, and inclusive teaching organisation, enabling us to provide consistently high quality, safe, and compassionate care and to demonstrate our Trust values of compassion, respect, integrity, working together and seeking excellence to present a professional image and maintain the highest standards of customer service and confidentiality.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
The post-holders will be required to provide an effective and efficient admin support service working within an integrated and skill mixed team. You must be able to multi-task under pressure and work flexibly to meet the needs of the service. The role will require you to provide ward clerk/admin support to the Ward Manager and ward staff and a large proportion of your day will be ward based working with the team. Duties will include collating data information for bed stays, ordering equipment/food/etc, taking timely and accurate messages, fire warden duties, e-mails, scanning, keeping up-to-date patient records, records tracking, post and deliveries, arranging sick notes, etc. You will also work alongside your admin hub colleagues, communicating daily, jointly organising and planning weekly workloads and providing cover for each other’s wards. Post-holders will also be required to provide lunchtime cover to the reception area on a rota basis.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024