Data Administrator - Basingstoke, United Kingdom - Crown Heights Medical Centre

Crown Heights Medical Centre

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Basingstoke, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job description

REPORTS TO:
Data and IT Manager

HOURS:
37.5

Job Summary:

The practice continues to move towards becoming a paper-light environment, and the main responsibilities of the post-holder will be to summarise and read code relevant information from patient's clinical records, hospital correspondence and other sources into the practice computer system, working strictly in accordance with the practice notes summarising and read code protocols.

Main Duties/Key Tasks:

Scanning of letters and relevant correspondence into patient's notes.
Extraction of necessary data from clinical correspondence and input into electronic patient record.
File copies of hospital referrals.
File hospital letters.
Read Coding the information into the practice clinical system
Auditing data collection standards in the practice
Filing and retrieving paperwork
Summarisation of patient's notes when requested.

Additional Tasks

Processing of SARS, Insurance Reports and other patient information requests
QOF progress chasing
Patient registrations
Diabetic retinopathy

Confidentiality:

While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the postholder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others' health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures

This will include:

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder's role
Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
Reporting potential risks identified
Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of people's rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is nonjudgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
Co

ntribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team's performance