Ward Clerk

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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, Dursley, Gloucestershire

Part time
Permanent
Onsite working

, 26 Nov | Get your application in now before you're too late!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: ca2c8110ffe2449792b64d359c8ca222

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Full Job Description

Our passion is for delivering care services of the highest quality to our local communities. To help us achieve our ambitions we are seeking to recruit a friendly, conscientious and motivated Ward Clerk to join our inpatient team here at the Vale Community Hospital. The ward cares for 14 patients on the Specialist Stroke rehabilitation pathway and 6 patients with other rehabilitation and medical needs. This is an interesting and challenging opportunity for someone with good communication, organisational and IT skills. The post holder will be expected to communicate effectively and sensitively with all service users, carers, staff and external agency staff, promoting good working relationships and commit to maintaining confidentiality and quality of the service.,

To provide reception support for the ward team. This will include answering the telephone, communicating effectively
To provide consistent and professional support to those that need to use the service (internal and external parties)
To provide administration support for the ward team, including booking transport, ordering of stores and maintaining patient records

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:o 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;o 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;o 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;o 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West.