Ward Clerk

**Working hours**: 37.5 hours per week

We are recruiting for a Ward Clerk to work within our Critical Care 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.

1. Dealing with enquiries of a non-clinical nature from wards, departments, medical staff, external organisations and members of the public, relating to the admission/transfer and discharge of patients; with a positive ,helpful manner providing advice and information where appropriate.
2. Operating the ‘Meditech’ computerised patient administration system, inputting daily data appropriate to the ward/department.
3. Using the computerised case note tracking system, ensure all case notes of discharged patients are sent to the Coding Office / discharge Secretaries / Consultant’s Secretary, within 24 hours of discharge. Also, any case notes required by various clinics, wards or departments are tracked and sent as appropriate. Complete appropriate documentation as
required.
4. Checking the ward’s bed statement and investigating any discrepancies between the statement and the number of patients on the ward. Ensuring all patients admitted for day case treatments are on the daily bedstate. Ensure the list of daycases are sent to coding on a weekly basis.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further details

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.