Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Admin Officer

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Job summary

We are looking for a Clinical Admin Officer to join the Paediatrics team based at Wexham Park Hospital.

The position will offer the chance to work with consultants and their teams, the role is ideally suited to candidates with administration experience with a positive approach to change.If you enjoy a complex and varied workload and have excellent interpersonal skills, this could be the post for you.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide an administrative service to the Department
  • To plan and organise own work schedule with the use of appropriate planning aids, demonstrating good time management and ensure anticipated difficulties in meeting deadlines are promptly reported.
  • Deal with Consultants requests for actioning urgent correspondence, medico-legal reports and any other appropriate adhoc correspondence requested in line with the Trusts policies and procedures
  • To obtain and organise information in support of own work activities, maintain confidentiality in accordance with organisation procedures.
  • Answer queries from colleagues, GP's and patients in a timely and professional manner.
  • To ensure that secure systems are in place for the storage of all resources including computerised information.
  • Scanning and uploading relevant patient medical documents into the Trust's Electronic Patient Record system.
  • To assist clinicians with sending letters using Epic where incomplete patient information e.g. address or where attachments need to be included.
  • To ensure all phone calls are dealt with in a professional and timely manner adhering to the local targets set by the department and Trust
  • To operate the various IT systems used to fulfil the role/department requirements.

About us

There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.

Details

Date posted

15 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£25,329 to £26,958 a year Per annum, pro rata, inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

151-SR232

Job locations

Wexham Park Hospital

Slough

SL2 4HL


Job description

Job responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good education to GCSE standard or equivalent experience
  • NVQ Level 3 Administration or equivalent practical knowledge

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in an office environment
  • Competent with current software programmes (i.e. MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to communicate clearly
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision
  • Be flexible and able to adapt to the different ways of working in the team
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good education to GCSE standard or equivalent experience
  • NVQ Level 3 Administration or equivalent practical knowledge

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in an office environment
  • Competent with current software programmes (i.e. MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to communicate clearly
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision
  • Be flexible and able to adapt to the different ways of working in the team

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

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Slough

SL2 4HL


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Slough

SL2 4HL


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Patient Patient Co-Ordinator

Dominique Hathaway

dominique.hathaway@nhs.net

03006150100

Details

Date posted

15 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£25,329 to £26,958 a year Per annum, pro rata, inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

151-SR232

Job locations

Wexham Park Hospital

Slough

SL2 4HL


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