Ward Administrator

Job description

Job responsibilities

Join the team at Victoria Gardens as a Ward Administrator working 22.5hours per week and enjoy a career where you will be valued and supported in everything you do.

Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will provide day-to-day administrative support for the wards, including updating service users’ information, managing the ward diary, updating service users timetables and minute taking.

As a Ward Administrator, you will be responsible for arranging meetings and typing up all correspondence and documentations. 

At Elysium, we want the best for you. That’s why you will have continuous access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you means better care. That’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

As a Ward Administrator you will be:

• Assisting in the development, implementation, and evaluation of effective means of systems within the unit, and between units and groups.
• Acting as a link between the public, outside professionals and other hospital departments and wards in respect of routine telephone calls and general enquiries.
• Making diary entries, room bookings and transport bookings as required.
• Maintaining as confidential, at all times, information regarding patients, staff and hospital business.
• Maintaining, evaluating, and updating the units filing and record keeping systems.
• Providing clerical/typing duties as required, ensuring confidentiality of all clinical/administrative records.
• Assisting the Ward Manager in the management of the ward’s budget, ensuring good accounting practice within the activity budget books.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Previous experience within a similar role and/or environment.
• Knowledge of healthcare terminology
• Previous experience of typing up medical reports and patient discharge letters 
• GCSE English, C or above.

Where you will be working:

Location: Victoria Road, Huyton, Liverpool, L36 5SA

You will be working at Victoria Gardens, a specialist locked rehabilitation for people with complex mental health needs and behaviours that challenge, as well as a ward for older females. You will support the service to equip service users with the skills required for community living and increased independence.  

The service is a recovery-based service and incorporates elements of the Good Lives Model, supported by individualised interventions. You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team which includes Nursing, Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Occupational Therapist and Social Worker support. 

What you will get:

• Annual salary of £15,034
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• 24 hour GP Service to ensure you are the best you can be
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. 

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. 

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• To be successful in this role, you will have previous experience within a similar role and/or environment, knowledge of healthcare terminology, experience in typing up medical reports and patient discharge letters, and a GCSE English grade C or above.

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

Elysium Healthcare

Address

Elysium Healthcare

Huyton

L36 5SA

Employer's website

https://www.elysiumhealthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)