Neonatal Ward Clerk

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has emerged for a for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, organised and friendly ward clerk to join the Neonatal Team at Homerton Healthcare.  This is a key role as you will be the first point of contact greeting families and visitors in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

If successful, you will be required to provide clerical and administrative duties to support the admin, nursing, and medical team.

Main duties of the job

This is a non-clinical role and does not involve working with babies.

Day to day responsibilities include but are not limited to answering the telephone, admitting, and discharging babies on the hospital computer systems, ensuring all patient demographic information is accurate and up to date, filing patient notes as well as other general clerical duties.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.