Health Records Prepping Clerk - Plymouth, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Description
The Central Prepping Team are looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable Prepping Clerk to work within the Prepping Team at Bush Park, Bircham House and Derriford Hospital.
The work is very busy, therefore the ability to prioritise your own workload and meet deadlines is essential. Applicants should also be able to demonstrate the use of their own initiative.
Applicants should be educated to GCSE grade A-C in Maths & English plus have an NVQ Level 2 in Business Administration or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Applicants must have excellent keyboard and accuracy skills and should also be able to demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality and be able to work across both sites.
**Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as 'Priority' and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.
Individuals are allocated a daily workload by the supervisor and are then responsible for organising their own day to day tasks.
Responsible for identifying, requesting collecting and tracing all notes for their individually allocated clinics on a daily basis in an efficient and timely manner, ensuring all case notes required for clinics are prepared to the specification of each Specialty.
Uses the Information Technology associated with the role, in particular patient management systems, Prepping Application and Spreadsheets to regularly analyse and check the status of clinics of individual patients and clinics, ensuring late additions are identified and prepped within the required timescales.
Ensures that any variances to the scheduled clinics/missing case notes are communicated to the Clinic staff (Nurses and Consultants) prior to the clinic starting.
To utilise the Prepping Application to view all clinics for the next 7 days, allocated by the Prepping Team Leader.
To utilise the Prepping Application to view a summary count of all allocated clinics, by specialty, on a specified day to enable own daily workload review.
To request the allocated clinic case notes from Central Records Library.
To check Corporate Services for any case notes that are located at peripheral hospitals and request them to be sent to the Derriford Prepping team in time for the clinic deadlines.
Trace the notes into the Bircham House or Level 2 Derriford Hospital and store on specialty allocated areas.
To prepare case notes for allocated specialty clinics.
To follow the correct procedure as outlined in the appropriate APN when identifying a patient with an alert on iPM.
To ensure that patient front sheet and labels correspond with the patient details on iPM and the referral letter, making changes to iPM if necessary.
To ensure that outcome forms are inserted into the patient case notes prior to the appointment (if required as some specialties will now be using electronic outcomes) to meet the current RTT pathway.
Place fully prepped notes into Blue Boxes, labelled and colour coded for the relevant clinic and day of the week, for transportation to the Derriford Prepping Office on L2 ensuring boxes are stored in the relevant area in date order ready for collection.
To ensure that a clear understanding is obtained surrounding data quality and data protection and be able to work to this guidance.
To have a knowledge and understanding of the APN's (Administrative Procedure Notes) regarding the preparation and management of patient case notes.
To ensure that iPM is kept up to date with the movement of patient case notes both into and out of the department.
To ensure that any loose filing is placed in the appropriate section of the patient case notes and to repairs are made to any damaged case notes.
To achieve 100% of case note availability for all clinics including clinics taking place at peripheral hospitals.
Please see attached job description for full details.
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