Admin Clerk

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to become a part of the Health Records Library team here at The Christie.The successful candidate will receive thorough training and will develop professional skills to provide a support service to the trust's patients.

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, based in Withington, Manchester is one of the leading cancer centres in Europe, offering high quality diagnosis, treatment and care as well as being at the forefront of cancer research and education.

As a Health Records Library clerk, you will be trained to be a valuable member of our team, providing support such as filing and retrieving casenotes, liaising with hospices around information of patients as well as many other administrative elements. Covering of other posts is also expected with sufficient training. Post holder will need to be available to work flexibly between the hours of 08:00 and 17:00.

To be successful, you will need to show you fulfil the essential criteria on the person specification.

Main duties of the job

To provide efficient running of Access to Health Records Library/Central administration services ensuring compliance with Caldecott guidance and data protection whilst facilitating the safe, confidential and secure storage and transmission of Health Records and subject to access requests in line with Trust management policies.

He/she is expected to carry out delegated administrative and clerical support to ensure appropriate information and support is given to all patients and staff as well as collation, input and analysis of relevant patient data on a range of systems and web portals.

To be operationally responsible for providing the administration of a patient focused service in a professional and timely manner whilst adhering to National and Trust policies/targets relating to Access to Health requests. The post requires contact with a wide range of medical/non-medical professionals internal and external / secretarial / administration staff to ensure the smooth running of the Hospital.

The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.