Ward Clerk

We are seeking to recruit a part-time ward clerk to join our existing team within Medicine & Emergency Care. The successful post holder will be based at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and will provide day to day admin support to the wards. Shift working is required between the hours of 08:00 - 20:00, 7 days per week including all bank holidays on a pro rata basis.,

• The successful candidate will provide admin support, including maintaining good IT skills & recording of patient admissions, transfers and discharges on PAS & Nervecentre.
• To undertake reception duties for multi disciplinary teams including answering the telephone and relaying messages to clinical staff.
• To undertake general office administration duties including filing, using Mediviewer to retrieve medical notes and information, scanning & handling post.
• Excellent communication skills and awareness of confidentiality.
• Booking patient transport.
  
  We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your