Ward Clerk Digby Ward - Lincoln, United Kingdom - United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Lincoln, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Digby ward is a 28 bedded Trauma Orthopaedic and Urology ward. We have an exciting opportunity for you to develop your skills and utilise skills you already possess. The role will include the assessment, planning implementation and discharge of these patients.

We aim to offer a gold standard service in which we will offer patients whom utilize our service the access to rapid diagnostics, a clear plan of care, to be then discharged.

The team work closely with Allied Health Professionals and take a multi-disciplinary approach to care provision.

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate and champion the Trusts behaviours and key values having knowledge to support the Dignity in Care Agenda.

A person who can work on own initiative and as part of a team to provide an environment that focuses on the patient and their experience maintaining confidentiality at all times.

You will be working closely with the nursing team and assist with referrals to social services, district nurses amongst others to provide an effective and timely discharge.

Experience in using Medway and Trust paperwork is desirable, as you will be responsible for ensuring the safe and effective admissions and discharges of our patients.

Digby Ward requires a structured process to care delivery, therefore requires a calm individual whom can cope under pressure.

This opportunity is especially exciting for someone who can provide clerical and administration support to the ward team and customer care to patients and visitors being at times the first port of call.

An individual with excellent communication skills is essential.

This role therefore requires a highly motivated individual who can use initiative, manage their time and work well in the team.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people.

We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated

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