The University of Nottingham Health Service

Medical Records Administrator

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Job summary

The University of Nottingham Health Service (Cripps Health Centre) is looking for a dynamic, keen, hardworking administrator to join our large team.

The practice has approx. 46000 patients with a full practice team of 80+. This advertised role will sit within a team of 12 other administrators which include secretaries, Workflow administrators, scanning administrators, results administrators, research administrators, and other medical record administrators. The team is led by our full time Admin Manager.

The practice is CQC rated 'excellent' and prides itself on providing the best service it can to it's patient population.

The practice sits on the beautiful University of Nottingham campus, where lunch walks can take you round gardens and Highfield's lake.

Starting rate is £11.44, which gets reviewed at the 6-month probationary period and then every 12 months thereafter.

We are currently unable to provide any UK Visa sponsorship.

Main duties of the job

This role includes a number of administrative tasks including:

Managing patient registrations, patient deductions, amendments and any other task related to the journey of the patient record. This includes liaising with PCSE and other practices to ensure the practice has all the correct information relating to the patient.Summarising patient records. Data entry, filing, redacting records, photocopying, answering tasks, coding, dealing with correspondence, typing, and making phone calls.

About us

The team at the University of Nottingham Health Service work hard to provide an excellent service to our patients.

There are 18 GPs, 3 Research Nurses, 4 Practice Nurses, 5 Nurse Practitioners / Advanced Nurse Practitioners, 4 HCAs, 2 Mental Health Practitioners, 3 Occupational Therapists, 6 First Contact Practitioners, 3 Clinical Pharmacists, 1 Nursing Associate, Health and Wellbeing Coach, Social Prescriber, 12 Care Navigators, 12 administrators.

The practice is a research practice and training practice, supporting 6 GP trainees each year.

We continually strive to improve our service. As such, we would like a dedicated, hardworking individual who takes pride in the work they do and is passionate about developing their own skills and knowledge.

Details

Date posted

09 May 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.44 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A1807-24-0002

Job locations

Cripps Health Centre

University Park

Nottingham

NG7 2QW


Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

The purpose of the role is to:

Manage the process of registering new patients and all the associated administrative tasks involved in this.

Processing incoming Temporary Resident and Immediate and Necessary forms on patient records.

Manage the process of receiving medical records into the practice.

Manage the process of deducting patient records and the process of records leaving the practice.

Work closely with PCSE/Capita to deal with any changes to the electronic medical record, including change of names and gender. This will also include identifying and rectifying any errors such multiple registrations and mismatches.

Update weekly GP2GP failures, chasing previous surgeries for full summaries if needed.

Review patient medical records, both paper and electronic, to ensure all relevant clinical data is recorded correctly and accurately into the electronic system.

Adding Immunisations and Vaccinations to records and processing allergy degrades.

Weekly new baby registration monitoring to ensure babies are booked in for newborn checks.

Manage the summarising of medical records including supervising a team of temporary staff employed to summarise the medical records at both sites.

Filing and retrieving paperwork.

Undertake Workflow and Scanning administrative duties to help cover annual leave and sickness.

Providing clerical assistance to Practice staff as required from time to time, including word/data processing, filing and photocopying.

Any other roles and responsibilities that the practice deem appropriate.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities to be undertaken by the Medical Records Administrator may be varied from time to time under the direction of the Practice Manager and Admin Manager, dependent on current and evolving Practice workload and staffing levels.The practice receives up to approximately 9000 new patient registrations a year, and approximately 8000 deductions. This role requires the Medical Records Administrator to manage this process to ensure that all medical records being received into the practice are coded and summarised in a timely manner. Similarly, that the deduction requests are dealt with within set timeframes.

The practice employs temporary staff to register new patients during busy times of the year. These staff need to be supervised to ensure that the work is carried out to a good standard and within set timeframes. This role will involve time and quality management of the temporary staff.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

The purpose of the role is to:

Manage the process of registering new patients and all the associated administrative tasks involved in this.

Processing incoming Temporary Resident and Immediate and Necessary forms on patient records.

Manage the process of receiving medical records into the practice.

Manage the process of deducting patient records and the process of records leaving the practice.

Work closely with PCSE/Capita to deal with any changes to the electronic medical record, including change of names and gender. This will also include identifying and rectifying any errors such multiple registrations and mismatches.

Update weekly GP2GP failures, chasing previous surgeries for full summaries if needed.

Review patient medical records, both paper and electronic, to ensure all relevant clinical data is recorded correctly and accurately into the electronic system.

Adding Immunisations and Vaccinations to records and processing allergy degrades.

Weekly new baby registration monitoring to ensure babies are booked in for newborn checks.

Manage the summarising of medical records including supervising a team of temporary staff employed to summarise the medical records at both sites.

Filing and retrieving paperwork.

Undertake Workflow and Scanning administrative duties to help cover annual leave and sickness.

Providing clerical assistance to Practice staff as required from time to time, including word/data processing, filing and photocopying.

Any other roles and responsibilities that the practice deem appropriate.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities to be undertaken by the Medical Records Administrator may be varied from time to time under the direction of the Practice Manager and Admin Manager, dependent on current and evolving Practice workload and staffing levels.The practice receives up to approximately 9000 new patient registrations a year, and approximately 8000 deductions. This role requires the Medical Records Administrator to manage this process to ensure that all medical records being received into the practice are coded and summarised in a timely manner. Similarly, that the deduction requests are dealt with within set timeframes.

The practice employs temporary staff to register new patients during busy times of the year. These staff need to be supervised to ensure that the work is carried out to a good standard and within set timeframes. This role will involve time and quality management of the temporary staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths

Desirable

  • Any additional qualification in administration.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in an office and undertaking general administrative tasks.
  • Experience of using computers to undertake data entry and typing.
  • Experience of working with other people.

Desirable

  • Experience of working with EMIS ideally or previous experience of any other clinical system, such as SystmOne.
  • Experience of dealing with people and patients.
  • Experience of working in a GP Practice or Health Centre.
  • Experience of dealing with students.

Knowledge, skills and attitude

Essential

  • Flexibility. Whilst the position has set hours, we would expect any new recruit to be able to occasionally provide flexibility in the hours they work, to ensure the practice can function. This is particularly important when other staff are on annual or sick leave.
  • Good communication. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively and professionally with a number of people, including patients, GPs, and any other stakeholders.
  • Proactive. We expect our employees to come to work to work to the best of their ability. This means we have an expectation that employees will proactively seek to help other team members if they complete all their own tasks.

Desirable

  • Good IT skills and a general knowledge of Excel and Word.
  • Previous experience of dealing with Primary Care Support England (PCSE).
  • Previous experience of dealing with tasks, GP2GP, registering and deducting patients.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths

Desirable

  • Any additional qualification in administration.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in an office and undertaking general administrative tasks.
  • Experience of using computers to undertake data entry and typing.
  • Experience of working with other people.

Desirable

  • Experience of working with EMIS ideally or previous experience of any other clinical system, such as SystmOne.
  • Experience of dealing with people and patients.
  • Experience of working in a GP Practice or Health Centre.
  • Experience of dealing with students.

Knowledge, skills and attitude

Essential

  • Flexibility. Whilst the position has set hours, we would expect any new recruit to be able to occasionally provide flexibility in the hours they work, to ensure the practice can function. This is particularly important when other staff are on annual or sick leave.
  • Good communication. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively and professionally with a number of people, including patients, GPs, and any other stakeholders.
  • Proactive. We expect our employees to come to work to work to the best of their ability. This means we have an expectation that employees will proactively seek to help other team members if they complete all their own tasks.

Desirable

  • Good IT skills and a general knowledge of Excel and Word.
  • Previous experience of dealing with Primary Care Support England (PCSE).
  • Previous experience of dealing with tasks, GP2GP, registering and deducting patients.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

The University of Nottingham Health Service

Address

Cripps Health Centre

University Park

Nottingham

NG7 2QW


Employer's website

https://www.unhs.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

The University of Nottingham Health Service

Address

Cripps Health Centre

University Park

Nottingham

NG7 2QW


Employer's website

https://www.unhs.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Manager

Hayley Wilkinson

hayley.wilkinson13@nhs.net

01158468888

Details

Date posted

09 May 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.44 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A1807-24-0002

Job locations

Cripps Health Centre

University Park

Nottingham

NG7 2QW


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