Ward Clerk

Join the team at Rhodes Wood Hospital as a Ward Clerk and enjoy a career where you will feel valued and supported in your job.

Working 37.5 hours a week at Rhodes Wood Hospital in Hatfield you will provide a proactive and flexible range of ward/ clinical administration services by providing relevant and appropriate ward based and clinical administration support to the Clinical UnitManagers and the wider MDT team; driving best practice and ensuring compliance with company procedures and documented policies.

You will be responsible for maintaining service user files and notes, including the filing, scanning, and archiving of patient information.

At Elysium, we want the best for you. That’s why you will have continuous access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you means better care. That’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Providing clinical administration and an efficient support service as required
- Providing efficient administration to the ward staff, dealing with any requests for information promptly.
- Answering the ward phones promptly and manage all enquiries as efficiently and effectively as possible.
- Managing with reception the room bookings for weekend visits
- Adding all admissions to Carenotes, electronic patient records system, on the day of admission as required by head office
- Ensuring Carenotes is fully updated with demographic information and links to the dashboard for good standards of data integrity
- Attending a wide range of meetings for the purpose of taking minutes, as required, ensuring attention to detail, circulating minutes to the attendees of the meetings in a timely fashion
- Managing all ward archiving on a weekly / monthly basis

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- Previous experience within a similar role and/or environment
- Knowledge of healthcare terminology
- GCSE English, C or above
- Good working knowledge of MS Office
- Good communication skills

**What you will get**:

- Annual salary of £21,561+ Benefits
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave - plus your birthday off
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity Package

There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers and much more.

**About your next employer**

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales, providing four services including: Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities& Autism, Children & Education, there is an opportunity for you to grow and move with Elysium.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.