Health Records Trainer/ Supervisor

Job overview

Health Records Trainer/Supervisor

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the extremely busy Health Records Department at Stepping Hill Hospital . The successful applicant will belong to an important integrated Health Records service.

This is a training and audit role, which supports a very busy fast paced Evolve scanning team. The ability to work on your own initiative to support the management of the Health Records team and present a quality service to all users is essential, you will also be required to work closely with the other members of the management team.

Full training and support will be provided

Main duties of the job

Knowledge of Health Records procedures and systems, specifically Patient Centre is essential. You must be organised, numerate, methodical and thorough with an enthusiastic and motivated approach to work. People skills and acceptance of constant changes in the workplace are essential. Staff management experience would be an advantage, but more important will be people and organisational skills.

To provide full and comprehensive training for existing and new starters within the Health Records Department.

To provide ongoing training, support and mentoring for new and existing staff performing across all aspects of the Evolve scanning processes .

To undertake regular quality audits in line with departmental guidelines. To maintain audit activity to the deadlines specified in the audit programme.

To partake in other audits (including Index/Sort, Scanning & QC) for the Health Records department as directed by the Management Team

To provide general supervision for the Health Records teams and supervisory support to the Health Records Management team when required to cover pressure periods and absence.

Flexibility with start and finish times maybe required on occasion to support training requirements

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Within this role you will work closely with the Training and Quality Assurance Manager, to help provide training , support and audit new and existing members of the Health Records Scanning Team who organise and provide all records functions within Health Records and Out Patients.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

To provide full and comprehensive training for all new starters within the Health Records Department.

To provide ongoing support and mentoring for new and existing staff performing all aspects of the clinic prep and evolve process.

To undertake regular quality audits in line with departmental guidelines for the preparation and scanning of patient records. To maintain audit activity to the deadlines specified in the audit programme.

To partake in other audits (including Index/Sort, Scanning and QC ) for the Health Records department as directed by the Management Team

If successful this vacancy will require a Standard DBS check at a cost of £26.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.

please note this vacancy may close early due to high volume of applications.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.