Health Records Clerk - Chester, United Kingdom - Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Chester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Working Part Time: 34.5 Hours Per Week.

You will be required to Monday - Friday 8:00 am -4:00 pm.

Work as part of a team within all areas of Health Records and Outpatient Service including the Health Records Library, Maternity Records and Scanning, to ensure that an efficient service is provided at all times.
Prioritise work load to ensure agreed timescales and key performance indicators are met.
Responsible for producing a daily print out of relevant admissions lists, pulling lists and clinic lists from the Meditech Computer System.
Responsible for the collection of case notes for future admissions and outpatient attendances from the Health Records and Maternity Records Library on a daily basis.
Problem solve to locate missing case notes ensuring that all possible searches have been undertaken. Missing case notes can jeopardise patient care, outpatient and in patient consultations may be cancelled if the case notes are not available.
Responsible for tracking case notes to relevant other departments using the Case Note Tracking Module of Meditech.
Due to the physical effort required in handling case notes, ensure that lifting/handling guidelines are followed.
Responsible for collating all off site casenote requests to ensure that they are requested and pulled twice a week with the Senior Clerk/Supervisor.
Use office equipment such as the Computer, Photocopier and Fax Machine.
Comply with the Trust and Departmental policies and procedures.

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.