Ward Clerk

+ 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 is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
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.