Ward Clerk - Middlesbrough, United Kingdom - South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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x 2 posts15 hours (Coronary Care Unit) &15 hours (Cardiology Admissions and Day Unit)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the Cardiology team within the Cardiothoracic Collaborative.

The post holders will be based on Coronary Care Unit an acute Level 2 Specialist Regional Coronary Care Unit and the Cardiology Admissions and Day Unit a busy Cardiology unit at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.

They should be well motivated, enthusiastic and willing to develop new skills.

It is expected that the applicant works as part of the team; using their initiative whilst delivering an excellent standard of care and service to our client group.


Duties include:


  • To communicate effectively and courteously with patients, visitors and other health professionals
  • Ensuring all patient admissions, discharges, transfers are entered onto the appropriate I.T. systems
  • Locating, retrieval and booking out of medical notes
  • To ensure that patient medical records are accurately kept in accordance with Directorate and Trust policies and procedures
  • To work alongside other clerical staff within the collaborative to provide a high quality and efficient service sharing information as appropriate


Each post holder will work 7.5 hours per day, two days a week that may include covers weekends and bank holidays.


The post holder will be an active member of the multi-disciplinary team demonstrating a range of skills to meet the needs of the service by providing comprehensive administrative and clerical support to the nursing staff/ medical team.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers Novice leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust.


South Tees Hospitals is the largest hospital trust in the Tees Valley with two acute hospitals and services in a number of community hospitals.


The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough is a designated major trauma centre and provides all its specialties from one site which is unique for a hospital of its size.

It provides a wide range of district general hospital services and specialist services such as neurosciences, renal medicine, spinal injuries, major trauma, cardiothoracics, vascular surgery and cancer services.

It has 1,024 beds, a 24-hour acute admissions unit and an emergency department which houses the major trauma centre for Durham, East Cleveland, Tees Valley and North Yorkshire and has its own helipad.

In 2012 the Middlesbrough hospital completed a £35 million redevelopment of its cancer services and is now proud to provide some of the best facilities in Europe.

The James Cook University Hospital has a modern, central operating suite containing 20 well-equipped theatres and a 16-bedded intensive care unit.

There is also an Institute of Learning, Research and Innovation on site, embracing postgraduate medical education, undergraduate teaching centre, nurse training school, the school of radiography and library facilities.


The Friarage Hospital in Northallerton is an essential part of our organisation and an important point of delivery for the community.

It is one of the smallest district general hospitals in the country and has 189 inpatient beds.

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