Outpatient Services Supervisor (Visa Sponsorship Available)

The Health Records Supervisor role is responsible for ensuring the team provides an efficient and streamlined administration to service users of East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust. This role involves supervising and leading a team of Health Records Assistant Administrators on a daily basis who provide hospital records for patients attending our hospitals.

As supervisor to the team, you will manage the day-to-day activities of the staff and work within Health Records ensuring a comprehensive administrative service to all service users. This includes organisation of your own and other team members' work, communicating with team colleagues and service users, members of the public, and other external stakeholders.

This post will include organisation and maintenance of effective systems (paper-based and electronic) and typing and preparation of correspondence for team members. You will carry out team meetings, appraisals, 1-1 meetings, manage staff sickness and performance. Work allocation will be a main duty within your role.

You will support teams consisting of Library and Clinic Preparation duties which deal with clinic appointments and admissions, extra clinics taking place within any of the hospitals within East Kent Hospitals ensuring patient notes are available at the point of contact. It is vital that you maintain codes of practice within Records management including maintaining confidentiality.

The Health Records Team is a dedicated and hard-working team who are highly motivated and effective. As a large Trust, we have services at 6 of the sites and we provide key services within the patient pathway for outpatient and in-patient activity. We work hard as a team to continually ensure that patient care is at the forefront of our service.

We are a professional and diverse team with different experiences and challenges and recognise that caring for our teams is a priority. Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK, you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.

To find out more information about applying for this role, please find attached the job description which contains details of the main aspects of the role. This advert closes on Sunday 10 Nov 2024. Apply now.