Ward Clerk - Leominster Community Hospital

Job summary

We are looking for a ward clerk to join our admin team at Leominster Community Hospital, we have 26 bedded unit.

The successful candidate will work directly with members of the multidisciplinary team of nurses, doctors, physiotherapists and other professionals.

You will need to have great communication skills and be able to multi task in a busy fast paced environment.

The role is 28 hours per week

Main duties of the job

• To maintain effective communication with ward staff, external departments within the Trust and key stakeholders outside the Trust, utilising telephone, fax machine and email as appropriate.
• The post holder will arrange appointments, transfers etc, on the request of the nursing and medical staff, liaising with other wards, departments and outside agencies as necessary.
• The post holder should ensure that medical notes are maintained in good order, with filing undertaken promptly when the notes have been completed by health care professional.
• The post holder will politely meet and welcome all patients and visitors to the department.
• The post holder will ensure maxims is kept up to date at all times with admissions transfers and discharges.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

The Trust encourages applications from people outside of the NHS and welcomes the valuable experiences and skills they can bring to the organisation.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time all the time.

Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Minster/Eaton Wards

South Street Leominster

Leominster

HR6 8JH

Employer's website

https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Minster/Eaton Wards

South Street Leominster

Leominster

HR6 8JH

Employer's website

https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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