Ward Clerk - Walsall, United Kingdom - Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Description
To work as part of a team, undertaking clerical duties within the Ward environment, providing assistance to nursing staff. Providing messenger service for the ward as required.Key Responsibilities
1.
To provide full clerical support to Ward by:
- 2. Ensuring that medical records are obtained and prepared for use by medical staff.
Maintaining such records in a preparative state throughout the patient's stay in hospital, which will include the filing of examination reports.
- Ensuring that the administration records of patients are completed on admission and discharge, and that the non-medical data is accurate. Completing daily statistical returns.
- Assisting Ward nursing staff with the discharge arrangements for patients, which will include arranging follow up appointments, transport, social services support and the availability of EDS for discharge along with post-discharge follow up phone calls.
- Ensuring ward stationery is ordered and maintained and that patient's mail is distributed.
- Undertaking telephone duties, gaining assistance from nursing staff where necessary.
In addition the postholder will:
- 1. Undertake a messenger service for the ward as required by the nursing
- Data input - ward based computer.
- Provide an other secretarial support to the ward as determined by the Ward Manager.
To provide full clerical support to Ward by:
- Ensuring that medical records are obtained and prepared for use by medical staff.
- Maintaining such records in a preparative state throughout the patient's stay in hospital, which will include the filing of examination reports.
- Ensuring that the administration records of patients are completed on admission and discharge, and that the non-medical data is accurate. Completing daily statistical returns
- Assisting Ward nursing staff with the discharge arrangements for patients, which will include arranging follow up appointments, transport, social services support and the availability of EDS for discharge along with post-discharge follow up phone calls.
- Ensuring ward stationery is ordered and maintained and that patient's mail is distributed.
- Undertaking telephone duties, gaining assistance from nursing staff where necessary
In addition, the postholder will:
- Undertake a messenger service for the ward as required by the nursing
- Data input - ward based computer
- Provide other secretarial support to the ward as determined by the Ward Manager
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