Ward Managers Assistant

Job summary

AMU & SDEC are busy medical receiving units which provide high quality care to acutely unwell patients. As the ward managers assistant you will be an integral part of the team.

You will need excellent interpersonal and customer service skills as well as a commitment to working within a team to develop and improve our services. If you are motivated and driven and want to be part of a team who are dedicated to improving the quality of care given to patients and enhance the patient experience.

We are seeking forward thinking individuals with a drive to improve the service we deliver within Acute Medicine. Are you looking for a challenging but rewarding administration role? If so, we're looking to recruit enthusiastic and motivated Ward Assistant to support the Ward Manager and Multidisciplinary team to complete the ward administration tasks on a daily basis.

As a team we are proud to celebrate achievements of our team members and are committed to staff wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

You will need to be a natural organiser and confident communicator with excellent administration, typing and IT skills, together with the ability to manage your own workload effectively.

Proficiency using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and email, including Outlook and diary management is essential. You will need to be educated to a GCSE level and NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent with excellent typing skills and knowledge of Microsoft packages. Whilst training will be provided for certain IT packages used you will need to be confident in the use of several systems that will need to be used daily. In return we'll give you full support for your ongoing professional development.

You need to be able to demonstrate excellent time keeping and organisational skills and be able to work within a team with the Trust Core Values and Behaviours.

You will work closely with the Ward Manager and the Multi-disciplinary team in the department along with colleagues throughout the Trust who have liaison with the Ward Manager and department such as Healthroster, NHS Professionals and Estates.

About us

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.