At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide front-line reception service and manage patient data for high-quality care.
- Company: Join the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, a leading healthcare provider.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible hours, generous benefits, and top-notch training opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patient care while developing your career in healthcare.
- Qualifications: Strong organisational skills and a passion for customer service.
The predicted salary is between 30630 - 32346 £ per year.
The ward administrator is responsible for providing a front-line reception service to the ward and for delivering a high standard of customer care to a wide range of client groups, including the ward’s multi-disciplinary team, patients, relatives and their carers.
The post-holder must play a proactive role in collecting, investigating, verifying and recording a high standard of patient demographic and treatment data. The post holder must accurately and in a timely manner enter such information on the computerised patient information system, to ensure that the trust receives the appropriate level of income for patient activity, avoids the potential clinical risks inherent with inaccurate patient records and is compliant with national NHS targets (e.g. on data quality and length of patient wait).
The post-holder must undertake effective forward planning, to ensure that the administrative needs of the service are met and must carry out a range of effective administration processes to support the delivery of high quality patient care.
The ward administrator will not be directly supervised on a day-to-day basis and is responsible for the management and prioritisation of their own workload.
- To provide a front of house reception service for patients or relatives arriving on the ward/unit, welcoming all visitors and directing as appropriate.
- Answering telephones, ensuring bed boards are up to date, transport bookings, to provide weekly and monthly ward activity figures.
- To provide a confidential and high standard general administrative support to the ward/unit.
- To ensure that all patient admissions, discharges and attendances are recorded accurately on Cerner or the relevant electronic system in real time.
- To sort out incoming/outgoing post and distribute or act as necessary and any other ward clerking responsibilities.
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.
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