Ward Clerk Team Leader

Job summary

Ward Clerk Administration Team Leader

Band 3 - 37.5 hours

As a Ward Clerk Administration Team Leader with supervisory and administration experience, you will demonstrate strong leadership skills to a team of Ward Clerks across the Trust.

You and your team will provide a comprehensive Ward Clerk service to wards across the Urgent Care, Medicine and Surgical specialties as well as supporting clerical teams within Same Day Emergency Care and Early Pregnancy Units.

This will include ensuring safe staffing levels, compliance with Trust key performance indicators and supporting HR processes including return to work meetings and documentation, delivery of supervision to staff, support to deliver annual appraisals as well as recruitment to the team. You will be responsible for ensuring efficient, effective and high-quality administration functions within the service.

You will undertake support and training of ward and other clerical support staff within the service in order to ensure that systems are efficient and effective and data quality is maintained.

A flexible approach is essential, as is your ability to become a key contributor to the administrative team whilst using your initiative and adapting well to change.

Main duties of the job

The designated person responsible for Bed Bureau/Ward Clerk Team staff training and rota management.

Managing a range of clerical support to the ward staff and bed managers.

To undertake duties delegated by management and work without supervision.

Support HR processes including return to work meetings and documentation, delivery of supervision to staff, support to deliver annual appraisals as well as recruitment to the team.

The post holder will be familiar with a full range of clerical tasks and be able to undertake specific duties.

The post holder will be undertaking tasks requiring strict confidentiality which may include personal sensitive information

About us

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people.

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.

Employer details

Employer name

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tameside General Hospital

Fountain Street

Ashton-Under-Lyne

OL6 9RW

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tameside General Hospital

Fountain Street

Ashton-Under-Lyne

OL6 9RW

Employer's website

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

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