Ward Clerk Northumbria Healthcare – NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Full time
Location: Berwick
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We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Ward Clerk team on Ward One at Berwick 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 and face-to-face for patients, visitors, and other healthcare professionals.

The post holder will be required to input data regarding all admissions, transfers, and discharges on the Patient Administration System (PAS). Basic keyboard/computer skills and the ability to work with minimum supervision are essential.

ECDL and NVQ Customer Care would be desirable. The successful candidate must have the willingness to undertake training for the role.

The post holder must be flexible to meet the needs of the service and to cover annual leave.

Responsibilities:

To provide a reception service, acting as the 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 the 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.

This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Dec 2024. Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme 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 Disability Confident.

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