Amu Ward Clerk

**Working Hours**: 36 hours per week

**Who Our Opportunity is for**:
Ward clerk required to work on an Acute Medical Unit.

The successful applicant will be highly motivated and enthusiastic, previous experience of working in an administrative role is desirable but not essential as training will be given.

You must be able to work using your own initiative, but also as part of a team. You will have excellent verbal and written skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with staff of all levels. Organisational skills and a keen eye for accuracy and detail are essential for this role.

Please note that this job entails working weekends and night shifts.

**What this Opportunity means**:

- Being a key member of the AMU team
- A friendly and supportive working environment
- Excellent holiday entitlements 27 days + bank holidays rising to 33 after 10 years’ service (pro rata)
- Competitive pension scheme
- Staff support, health and wellbeing opportunities & other employee benefits

The post-holder will provide clerical back up to the Urgent Care Division, medical and nursing staff over a wide range of documentary work and computer inputting.

The post-holder will answer the ward/department telephone and deal with enquiries where possible.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.