Ward Clerk

**Division**: Planned Care

**Care Group**: Women's & Children's Service

**Band**: 2

**Interview Date**: Wednesday 5th April 2023

Please note this role will cover from 7:00 - 22:00 Monday to Friday and 9:00 - 17:00 on weekends and bank holidays.

We are recruiting Ward Clerks who shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best of People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

To admit and discharge patients on to the trust systems, to make outpatient appointments and general administrative roles. Filing and tracking of case notes. Reception work to admit patients when they attend unit.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Admitting, discharging and transferring patients onto Bed Management System. Reviewing EDNS (as required) and ensuring patients’ personal details are up-to date and correctly entered onto the OASIS/PAS System. Inputting and amending Bed Occupancy System for Nursing Staff

Receiving and auditing patients’ case-notes and ensuring notes available for ward rounds. Preparation of trolley, notes, forms, x-rays in readiness for Ward rounds. Collecting Patients’ case-notes from the Health Records Department, Transit area

Collection of Ethnic and Religious Data and inputting information onto OASIS System

Acting as Stage One Officer to determine overseas patients’ liability for treatment charges and informing the Overseas Officer

Filing, updating and maintenance of patients' records, ensuring Patient Front sheet contains correct details

Keeping daily records of any pathology requests as requested, checking forms are correctly completed. Delivery of specimens to Pathology Laboratory if urgently required

Delivery of Prescriptions Forms to Pharmacy and collection of drugs as appropriate

Assisting Nursing staff with processing of patients’ property and valuables in accordance with policy and procedures and arranging for property to be taken into General Office for safe custody.