Clinical Admin Officer inSlough inSlough PUBLISHED 22 SEP 2024

Job Overview


We are looking for a full time Clinical Admin Officers to join the Medicine team at Wexham Park Hospital. The positions will offer the chance to work with the Medicine Consultants and their teams, the roles are ideally suited to candidates with administration experience with a positive approach to change.

If you enjoy a complex and varied workload and have excellent interpersonal skills, this could be the post for you.

Main duties of the job

• To provide an administrative service to the Department.
• To plan and organise own work schedule with the use of appropriate planning aids, demonstrating good time management and ensure anticipated difficulties in meeting deadlines are promptly reported.
• Deal with Consultants requests for actioning urgent correspondence, medico-legal reports and any other appropriate adhoc correspondence requested in line with the Trusts policies and procedures
• To obtain and organise information in support of own work activities, maintain confidentiality in accordance with organisation procedures.
• Answer queries from colleagues, GP’s and patients in a timely and professional manner.
• To ensure that secure systems are in place for the storage of all resources including computerised information.
• Scanning and uploading relevant patient medical documents into the Trust’s Electronic Patient Record system.
• To assist clinicians with sending letters using Epic where incomplete patient information e.g. address or where attachments need to be included.
• To ensure all phone calls are dealt with in a professional and timely manner adhering to the local targets set by the department and Trust
• To operate the various IT systems used to fulfil the role/department requirements.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.


Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities


To provide clinical administrative support to the Consultants and their junior medical staff, ensuring that Trust standards are adhered to in relation to all documentation and data input concerning patients and treatment.

Person specification


Qualifications


Essential criteria

• Good education to GCSE standard or equivalent experience
• ECDL or equivalent
• NVQ Level 3 Administration or equivalent practical knowledge
  
  

Experience


Essential criteria

• Experience of office environment
• Competent with current software programmes (i.e. MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience of working within a team environment
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Working in the NHS either in a hospital/private practice/GP setting
• Call centre experience
  
  

Knowledge

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of medical terminology
• Knowledge of NHS targets
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .

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