Health Records Clerk - Gillingham, United Kingdom - Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

Job Title: Health Records Clerk

Division: Perioperative & Critical Care

Care Group: Corporate

Band: 2

Interview Date: 7th May 2024

We are recruiting for a Medical Records Clerk,who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

About us

Our Vision and Values

All staff must commit to our Vision and Values and exhibit behaviours in line with our new Values.

B old We are inspiring and ambitious

E very Person Counts We are respectful and supportive

S haring and Open We are open and speak up

T ogether We are inclusive and responsible

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment. Our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

Job responsibilities

Safe and accountable storage of patients health records in our off site facility at Stirling Park and in the Deceased Library Area

Coordination of missing notes to deliver to various services throughout the Trust

Collection of notes from wards to amalgamate with originals

Prep notes for Outpatient clinics to ensure updated demographic information and referral letters are in patients notes

Repairs and maintenance of all health records

Culling and destruction of health records according to the NHS guidelines

Distribution and management of the delivery of notes throughout the Trust via Transit Area at Medway.

Effective and efficient coordination of the delivery of notes between both sites.

Digital Health Records Clerk (Scanning Team) - Collection, preparation, scanning and quality checking of patient notes. Requires attention to detail, strong computer skills, ability to consistently work at fast pace whilst maintaining quality. Manual handling of multiple notes folders from the whole site and within medical records department.

Collection of notes from wards to amalgamate with originals

Tracking of all notes to record appropriate location at any given time within the department and to where the notes are being sent/ allocated.

Qualifications

Essential

Experience

Essential