Vte Administrative Assistant - Chester, United Kingdom - Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Chester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Working hours: 36 hours per week

An opportunity has arisen in the Planned Care Department for a 36 hour Administrative Assistant. The post is based within the Vascular Department in the Planned Care Division.

The successful post holder will be expected to provide administrative and clerical support to the VTE specialist nurses in the Vascular Department within the Planned Care Division.

The post-holder will work closely with a team of secretaries, nurses and consultants and will be required to undertake a range of duties as appropriate.

The post-holder is responsible for collating, assessing and validating information relating to the VTE (venous thromboembolism) speciality as well as will provide an efficient and confidential clerical service including data entry, audio typing, telephone queries and filing.

Knowledge of medical terminology and experience in the use of Cerner would be a distinct advantage, but full training will be provided.

Administrative Responsibilities

Provide administrative and clerical support to the Vascular team
Responsible for maintaining efficient data management systems
To ensure the accuracy of data on the hospital computer system and To ensure all VTE information is inputted accurately onto the relevant database.
To identify relevant patients for VTE by checking documentation relating to the patients.
To attend relevant adhoc meetings, including bi-annual thrombosis committee and RCA panel, to document minutes and complete outcome and follow up forms from clinician.
To ensure month end VTE reports are validated and the system updated to reflect any changes. Feedback the updated data to the appropriate teams by the requested deadline.
Collate data for external audits (GIRFT AND FOI requests)
To chase tests and investigations for patients as per nurse instruction
To cover general office duties as and when required.
To attend RCA meeting and action outcomes accordingly if required.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services.

The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do.

The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life.

The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.