Ward Clerk
| Posting date: | 08 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,937.00 to £26,598.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24937.00 - £26598.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 August 2025 |
| Location: | Winchester. Hampshire, SO22 5DG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9251-25-0591 |
Summary
Please see job spec for more information. Working closely with nursing, medical, other staff and outside agencies, to contribute to the maintenance and on-going development of an effective and efficient administrative, clerical and secretarial service for users of the one or more inpatient wards and/or day and out-patient units, their relatives and visitors through the performing of key administrative, clerical and secretarial tasks. Update admission trolley on a daily basis To input information into the IT systems used within the Child Health Service, including systems used for admission/ transfer/ discharge and coding, ensuring that information is correct and up-to-date. Register patients and add encounter/episode and /or outcome on the Trusts patient administration system. To be responsible for the maintenance of the wards administrative processes and systems contributing to their on-going development and improvement. To receive/welcome new patients onto the ward, checking particulars on their records and ensuring notes and necessary paperwork is collated and in order; ensuring identity bracelets are available for nursing staff; compiling sets of required blank documentation for emergency patients; informing the nurse in charge or deputy of any query new patients may have, and ensuring the safety of the children and young people by ensuring the security of the unit doors at all times To provide a front line information service, offering non-clinical information, advice and guidance to members of the public, colleagues from external agencies (e.g.. general practitioners, health visitors and Social Services), nursing staff and colleagues from other departments in the Trust