Ward Clerk - Emergency Assessment Unit - Band 2

The Emergency Assessment Unit at Grantham Hospital is a 24/7 inpatient area which supports medical patients. We have a high turnover of patients., As part of your ward clerk role you will work closely with the nursing and medical teams based on EAU, providing their clerical and reception support. You will be expected to maintain high standards of record keeping, filing whilst liaising with other departments within the hospital and outside organisations such as GP's, other healthcare professionals and other hospitals in the best interest of the patients.

We are looking to recruit staff who have exceptional IT, record keeping skills and a knowledge regarding confidentiality and data protection. If you believe you have good customer service skills with pleasant and professional telephone and intra personal skills then please apply.

NHS experience is desirable but not essential.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.