Ward Clerk

2 weeks ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Full time

Have you ever thought about a career in Forensic Mental Health Services? Would you like to be part of a CQC rated “Good” service? Do you want to develop your skills, with the backing of a well-developed administration team, and have the opportunity to participate in appropriate training for this role? If your answers are yes, we have a Ward Clerk vacancy at the Trevor Gibbens Unit in Maidstone.

The post-holder will work alongside the Admin Team, enabling the team to offer consistency across four wards in a variety of tasks, ensuring targets are met and providing nursing staff with valuable support.

The post holder will be educated to ‘C’ Grade or above GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent and NVQ Level 3/RSA3 or equivalent.

Previous experience in an administrative and/or clinical role within the NHS is desirable.

It is essential that you are keen and reliable, and have a thirst for knowledge and experience. This is a development role which will involve training, on-the-job challenges and multi-tasking. It is also essential that you are able to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing.

You will need to possess a sound understanding of confidentiality and be able to remain calm and professional when faced with changing or challenging situations.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

We are seeking a Ward Clerk to join our friendly administration team in an exciting and hard-working role. Your main duties will include:

- Scanning and saving documents
- Maintaining filing systems in line with organisations policies and procedures.
- Being based on the wards and have the ability to move across all 6 wards when needed
- Maintaining the staff photograph boards
- Updating the supervision trees and lead roles for the wards
- Assisting with ensuring our wards are fully staffed by checking staffing levels daily and putting shifts out to NHSP
- Assisting with ward audits when needed
- Keeping staff informed of their training compliance and escalating when necessary
- To assist with the updating of all noticeboards, staff information folders and staff induction packs
- To maintain strict confidentiality at all times
- Assisting with arranging and facilitating interviews for ward staff during absence
- Minuting ward meetings
- Working with the wards towards CQC, NHSE and CQUIN requirements when necessary
- Work alongside the ward clerk apprentices across six wards in a variety of tasks to provide nursing staff with valuable support.


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