# Ward Clerk

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ward-clerk/7aefc113-cc78-4498-9448-6f340fa1bfd0
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ward-clerk/7aefc113-cc78-4498-9448-6f340fa1bfd0.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Colchester
- **Region:** East of England
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-19T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09T14:03:20.106Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Colchester/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/medicine/medicine-v8144908
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8144908?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for a Ward Clerk  to join Birch Ward.

Our ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and a friendly manner as you will be communicating with  a wide variety of people. You will be hard working, highly motivated and have the ability to work on your own initiative.

Proposed Interview date: 27th July 2026

### Main duties of the job

- Effective communication with colleagues, carers, visitors to the ward in a professional manner, responding to a diverse range of enquires.

- Ensuring enquiries are managed effectively with the appropriate support to enable an effective outcome.
- Ensuring effective communication with the nursing team and multi-disciplinary team (MDT), to allow for effective MDT working and prompt decision making
- Initially responding to concerns where necessary and escalating these to the appropriate member of staff where required
- Ensuring there are processes in place to remind staff to carry out actions/tasks that are time specific. (For example, contacting internal/external teams or checking medication has been requested and arrived in preparation for discharge)

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- - Good clerical experience
- - Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- - Experience of contact with members of the public
- - Recognised computer/IT skills including knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- - Experience of team working to achieve targets

**Desirable**

- - Previous ward clerk experience
- - Experience of team work
- - Experience of working with EPR
- - Understanding medical Terminology
- - Experience of working in the NHS

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- - Good standard of general education with strengths in English and Maths at GCSE Grade C or above
- - NVQ Level 3 in relevant subject equivalent

**Desirable**

- - Evidence of on-going development as appropriate

## Documents

- [jd and ps (pdf, 480.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10443991)
- [staff networks (pdf, 230.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724)
- [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262)
- [apprenticeship handbook (pdf, 373.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2499)
- [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146)
- [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404)

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