Ward Clerk | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

To provide a reception service, acting as first point of contact on the telephone or face to face, for patients, visitors and other healthcare professionals. To facilitate good communication with other wards and departments involved in patient care or ward/departmental functioning. To input data regarding all admissions, transfers and discharges onto Patient Administration System. To provide an efficient administration and clerical service to unit staff, visitors and patients. We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

• Provides an administration and clerical service to the medical, nursing and associated teams, including the patient and their relatives for an individual ward or department
• Provides customer care for all patients, relatives and carers and other healthcare professionals.
• Demonstrates own role to other ward clerks and orientates staff to department and ward systems.
  
  We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Ward Clerk team on Ward One at Alnwick Infirmary.
The individual should have excellent communication, customer care, organisational and interpersonal skills. They should be able to provide a reception service, acting as the first point of contact via the telephone - face to face - for patients, visitors and other healthcare professionals. The post holders will be required to input data regarding all admissions, transfers and discharges on Patient Administration System (PAS). Basic keyboard/computer skills and the ability to work with minimum supervision is essential. The successful candidates must have the willingness to undertake training for role. The post holders must be flexible to meet the needs of the service and to cover annual leave., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .