Rotational Ward Clerk

Job overview

Rotational Ward Clerk

Band 2 - 30 hours - Permanent

Shift patterns - 8:00am - 2:00pm and 1:00pm - 7:00pm Monday to Friday

Are you a confident, and flexible person, with excellent engagement, customer care, and communication skills, who can work as part of a creative and motivated team? If you are, we would really like to hear from you!

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and caring individual to join our Rotational Ward Clerk Team, who likes variety and is able to work flexibly, efficiently and independently to support a range of services.

The Rotational Ward Clerk role provides essential cover for the administrative roles that support our inpatient services here at Tameside Hospital; this will include; in patient Wards, Same Day Emergency Care & Early Pregnancy patient receptions, as well as general and specialist administration.

There are a variety of shift patterns between the hours of 7:00am and 9:00pm across a 7 day footprint and the successful candidate must be flexible to work across these hours/day including bank holidays etc.

Please note, this post will predominantly work shift patterns of 8:00am - 2:00pm and 1:00pm - 7:00pm , Monday to Friday, alternating weeks.

This post will predominantly be based on the Discharge Lounge.

Main duties of the job

Providing a comprehensive ward reception and administration service, the  post holder will, in collaboration with other ward staff, support patients,  relatives and other staff members as a first point of contact. The Ward clerk  will update the Trust Electronic Patient Record (Lorenzo EPR) accurately and in real time whilst also ensuring patient case notes are available and  appropriately maintained throughout each admission.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.

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