Health Records Officer

Job summary

We require flexible and enthusiastic individuals to work within Health Records at the Royal Derby Hospital. The Health Records Officer is key to providing routine clerical support within the Health Records Department to ensure an effective and efficient service to all users. You will operate as part of the Trust's Digital Services Team which brings huge benefits in terms of shared learning to improve our services for patients and superb opportunities for staff personal and professional development and career advancement. The role in Health Records is not a desk based role and is very physical. The role includes moving roll cages on a regular basis, transporting casenotes in trolleys, being on your feet for the majority of your shift, walking around the hospital sites locating casenotes, working at height and a requirement to handle large casenotes safely which can weigh over 10kg

Main duties of the job

Retrieval and filing of case notes, identify and filter case notes in accordance with Trust Policies, KPI's and departmental SOP's. To ensure that documentation is scanned into the system, accurately and to agreed targets and timescales. To review the storage of case notes both on and off-site when reviewing for retention and destruction, ensuring data corresponds with the Patient Administration System (PAS) meeting the information governance standards. This position will be within the Hub team based at Royal Derby Hospital, the main duties will be retrieving case notes from around the hospital site, prepping and delivering to outpatient areas and wards. This is a physically demanding role as most of your time will not be office based. Although based at RDH you may be required at times to work in the hub at Florence Nightingale Hospital or the main Health Records Department at The Johnson Building (Pride Park) All staff are expected to help other areas of the department as and when required

Closing date of applications: 9 October 2024

Date of interview: 23 October 2024

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

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

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