Band 2 Receptionist / Admin Support - Community Paeds

To provide administrative support to the medical secretarial team to ensure that the service operates efficiently, notes are maintained correctly and clinical correspondence is sent out within the agreed standards. To plan own tasks and prioritise workload accordingly., To answer telephone calls, dealing with initial queries and forwarding calls and messages as necessary. Responsible for pulling of notes for clinics ensuring that the notes are properly bound and prepared to agreed information governance and medical records standards. Photocopying and sending out of clinical letters and reports ensuring that the demographic information on letters matches the information on envelopes and finalise the letters on PAS for the Secretary (after being signed by the Doctors). Due to their content some correspondence may be of an upsetting nature.

Opening and date stamping of post, ensuring that urgent correspondence is passed onto the appropriate person, scan in the new patient referrals (after triage by the Doctor) and send them to the Central Booking Service, in a timely manner. Participate in archiving clinical notes on an annual cycle to ensure the best utilisation of medical records storage. Retrieve notes from filing as required for audits. Ensure that the filing areas are kept tidy and that filing is undertaken on a daily basis to ensure that notes are up to date. File correspondence and reports in medical notes prior to appointments. Ensure medical records contain documents, graphs and forms required by Consultants and medical staff. To arrange interpreters as required, following local procedures.

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Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

We provide community and specialist services within Birmingham and the West Midlands. We deliver over 100 clinical services, out in peoples homes and in over 300 hospitals, health centres and clinics. We provide services for adults, children, people with learning disabilities, those with rehabilitation needs and also dental services.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.