Health Records Clerk

Job summary

This post is fixed term for 12 months to meet the needs of the service.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within The Digitised Health Records Services to be part of the team based at Online House, Cleppa Park in Newport. This is a busy but supportive team and we are looking for individuals who have:

• Excellent Communication skills
• Excellent Organisational skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Flexibility in working practices
• The ability to work as a team
• The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines

Our goal is to ensure the availability of the Health Record to support the journey towards the digitisation of patient records. Digitised Health records play a vital part in patient care, and you will be part of a team who ensure the availability of the patient record, supporting Health care professionals caring for the patient.

We can offer have varied working schedules to suit your lifestyle and can offer many training and development opportunities to progress your career within this service.

If you would like to be part of our team and believe you can help us achieve our aims then this is the place for you.

Main duties of the job

• Locate, retrieve and track patient records
• Prepping patient records in line with Standard Operating procedures
• Quality checking paper records
• Dealing with enquiries
• Maintain professional communication with all disciplines of staff
• Deal with internal/external requests for information in accordance with data protection
• Scanning the patient record using the latest technology
• Quality checking the scanned patient record
• Storing the paper record in line with retention procedures

Candidates are advised to ensure they refer to the attached Person Specification and use the'Supporting Information' section of the application form to detail how they meet the various requirements.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.