Reception Clerk

**Job Title**:Reception Clerk

**Trust Location**:Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

**Location**: St Hughs Sexual Health Clinic L20 3QY & Southport Centre for Health and Well Being PR90PQ

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, then Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust is the place for you.

**About the Trust**

Mersey & West Lancashire Hospital NHS Trust provides healthcare in hospital and the community to 258,000 people across Southport, Formby, and West Lancashire. Acute care is provided at Southport and Formby District General Hospital and Ormskirk District General Hospital. This includes adults’ and children’s accident and emergency services, intensive care, and a range of medical and surgical specialities. Women’s and children’s services, including maternity, are provided at Ormskirk hospital. The Northwest Regional Spinal Injuries Centre at Southport hospital provides specialist care for spinal patients from across the North West, North Wales, and the Isle of Man.

**What you will be responsible for**:

- Meeting and greeting service users as they arrive in the department
- Issue service users with a registration form for completion and input their details accurately onto the Sexual Health Management System.
- To create, update and amend electronic patient records, with particular emphasis on ensuring all demographics are accurate.
- Use the Sexual Health Patient Administration System to book and track service users through the service
- Undertake reception administration duties, including filing, database input and ensure secure storage of confidential information
- To staff the Single Point of Access, providing non-clinical advice, signposting service users to the most appropriate walk in clinic and management of appointments

**You will learn the following whilst working at the trust**:

- An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS.
- Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively always complete your role to the highest standard.
- A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation.

**You will have the following skills/experience**:

- Previous reception experience desirable
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Excellent organisation skills
- Microsoft package knowledge - Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Healthcare experience - Desirable

**This role may require you to show evidence of vocational level 3 qualification or at least 2 years typing/ secretarial experience.**

**As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits**:

- **Competitive pay rates-** work this week, get paid next week
- **Essential support when you need it
- 24/7 365 days**:

- call us anytime
- **Multi locational**:

- work across neighbouring Trusts
- **Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go**:

- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
- **Varied working options to suit your lifestyle**:

- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
- **Training and development opportunities**:

- Keep up with the essentials and more
- **Build holiday allowance for every shift you work**:

- your work life balance is important to us
- **Stakeholder pension scheme available**:

- a flexible future for you and yours

**Who are NHS Professionals?**

As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

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**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract

**Salary**: £12.86 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Do you have recent medical secretary experience?

Work Location: In person

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract

**Salary**: £11.45 per hour

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person