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Ward Clerk | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 31 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £23,575 per annum incl HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2024 |
| Location: | Slough, SL2 4HL |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6358310/151-CB0091-B |
Summary
• To provide administrative cover for the ward, and to perform general receptionist duties
• To provide clerical assistance to the senior sister and Matron.
• To process patient records on EPIC and liaise with ward staff to resolve any problems.
• Key tasks would be update EPIC and assisting with data collection for audits.
• Ensure adequate stock levels of general ward supplies, EROS requests and to ensure that the supplies are neatly arranged in cupboards.
• To provide a range of non-clinical duties
Managing reception desk as the ward receptionist:
• Welcoming patients and relatives to the ward and undertaking administration duties.
• Answering the ward telephones timely and relating information accurately.
• To answer telephone queries of a non clinical nature.
• Admit, discharge and transfer patients on EPIC.
• Responsible for data entry.
• Act as the EPIC superuser for the ward.
• Maintain all the patient boards with the appropriate consultants names.
• Assist with the completion and collation of menus when required.
• Any other duties as requested.
Obtain, transmit and save information relating to the delivery of a care service:
• To ensure the admission and discharge book is updated daily and liaise with ward staff to resolve any issues that may arise.
• Assisting with data collection as required for the purpose of audits as required.
• Assist the ward staff with collecting information for the friends and family and patients survey.
• Collect and deliver the ward post daily.
• Undertake administrative duties for Ward Manager and Matron, general typing – letters, references, documents, notices for the ward, photocopying etc.
• Carry out other duties required by the Matron commensurate with the grade
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Store/stocks supply: -
• Monitor and maintain adequate stock levels of general ward supplies and stationeries.
• To ensure that non-stock orders are placed appropriately, being aware of cost constraints on behalf of the ward manager but is not a signatory.
• Order on Eros but not a signatory.
• Ensure that storage areas are kept clean and uncluttered, may need to maintain a record of this as required.
• Ensure the privacy and dignity of patients is respected at all times.
• To ensure the correct procedures are followed with regard to patients property, cash and valuables when being handed to the cashier.
Human Resources IiP
• To maintain the high standards of the department by contributing towards individual and team objectives.
• To actively contribute to appraisal and objective setting at least once a year.
• To attend and participate in ward daily briefings and meetings as required.
• To attend all mandatory training sessions as required.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Jun 2024
• To provide clerical assistance to the senior sister and Matron.
• To process patient records on EPIC and liaise with ward staff to resolve any problems.
• Key tasks would be update EPIC and assisting with data collection for audits.
• Ensure adequate stock levels of general ward supplies, EROS requests and to ensure that the supplies are neatly arranged in cupboards.
• To provide a range of non-clinical duties
Managing reception desk as the ward receptionist:
• Welcoming patients and relatives to the ward and undertaking administration duties.
• Answering the ward telephones timely and relating information accurately.
• To answer telephone queries of a non clinical nature.
• Admit, discharge and transfer patients on EPIC.
• Responsible for data entry.
• Act as the EPIC superuser for the ward.
• Maintain all the patient boards with the appropriate consultants names.
• Assist with the completion and collation of menus when required.
• Any other duties as requested.
Obtain, transmit and save information relating to the delivery of a care service:
• To ensure the admission and discharge book is updated daily and liaise with ward staff to resolve any issues that may arise.
• Assisting with data collection as required for the purpose of audits as required.
• Assist the ward staff with collecting information for the friends and family and patients survey.
• Collect and deliver the ward post daily.
• Undertake administrative duties for Ward Manager and Matron, general typing – letters, references, documents, notices for the ward, photocopying etc.
• Carry out other duties required by the Matron commensurate with the grade
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Store/stocks supply: -
• Monitor and maintain adequate stock levels of general ward supplies and stationeries.
• To ensure that non-stock orders are placed appropriately, being aware of cost constraints on behalf of the ward manager but is not a signatory.
• Order on Eros but not a signatory.
• Ensure that storage areas are kept clean and uncluttered, may need to maintain a record of this as required.
• Ensure the privacy and dignity of patients is respected at all times.
• To ensure the correct procedures are followed with regard to patients property, cash and valuables when being handed to the cashier.
Human Resources IiP
• To maintain the high standards of the department by contributing towards individual and team objectives.
• To actively contribute to appraisal and objective setting at least once a year.
• To attend and participate in ward daily briefings and meetings as required.
• To attend all mandatory training sessions as required.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Jun 2024