Ward Clerk

3 weeks ago


North East England, United Kingdom The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Ward Clerk (Band 2) - 317 General Anaesthesia Specialty - FH - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Tyne and Wear

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to become a member of our Theatre team at Freeman Hospital. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and skilled ward clerk to join either team. The successful candidates will possess excellent management and leadership skills working within a large multidisciplinary team.

The Ward Clerk will be based in an office located within theatres where the successful candidate will spend most of their time in a very busy and dynamic area. You will promote an environment conducive to good communication welcoming all visitors to our theatre suites consisting of 43 theatres RVI & 20 theatres Freeman Hospital covering a variety of specialities.

You would be required to work independently as well as part of a team enjoying the hustle and bustle with numerous interruptions and quick changes in prioritising workload.

  • Interview date: 19 June 2024
  • 25 hours/week
  • You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

This role incorporates supporting Matron and senior nursing staff, as well as interacting with a large number of Multidisciplinary team members. Interacting with patients, relatives and visitors to the theatres, dealing with telephone enquiries, computer data input, working in Trust computer programmes including E-record, WardWatcher, Schapp, and Allocate Healthroster 11 ensuring data protection is complied with,monitoring and ordering department stock items.

The successful candidate will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, effective organisation and time management skills and have a good standard of English, grammar, punctuation and spelling at GCSE or equivalent level.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

To provide and maintain efficient and effective administrative support to the Ward Sister/ Charge Nurse and multidisciplinary team.

Contribute to the delivery of a consistently high standard of patient care as part of the multi-disciplinary team.


Ensures case notes, investigations, X-rays and results are available for new
admissions, ward rounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings.


To ensure that case notes are correctly maintained following departmental
guidelines and compliance with legislation (Caldicott Guidelines etc).Ensuring PAS system is up to date and accurate.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

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