Head of Medical Records

Job summary

Job Title: Head of Medical Records

Trust Location: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, then Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is the place for you.

About the Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust provides acute, community and specialist healthcare services to patients across the county of Buckinghamshire, and neighbouring areas. We have over 6,000 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff caring for more than half a million patients every year. Our patients are at the heart of everything that we do, and our aim is to provide safe and compassionate care, every time. Our focus is on providing right care, right place, right time, first time and everything we do is aimed at delivering high-quality care when and where our patients need it.

Main duties of the job

• Manage the day-to-day Medical Records department (Scanning Bureau, Clinic Prep, Admissions and Access to Health Records) reporting to the Digital Director on all matters affecting delivery of core services.
• Be professionally accountable for all aspects of health records within the Trust, including devolved services, and to provide professional health records advice within the Trust and to other outside providers and patients as required.
• Use of analytical skills to review and generate reports for record management data/deliverables and make recommendations to service users and projects.
• Linking in with the Digital teams and EPR Programme developing initiatives and managing the implementation of projects to modernise services and improve facilities and working practices to meet organisational and service delivery plans. Develop complex option papers and business cases to support change.
• Senior involvement in the management of the EDMS system (Evolve) ensuring all patient records on the EDMS are readily available for patient care. Linking in with the Informatics teams and supplier as required.
• Senior involvement in the managing of the back-end system of the EDMS (Merido) linking in with Informatics colleagues as required.

The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

• Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
• Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
• Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
• Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your My Bank shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
• Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
• Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more
• Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

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