Job Title: Receptionist / Ward Clerk
Location: Candidate required across multiple locations - Witney Community Hospital, Chipping Norton Memorial Hospital, Bicester Community Hospital, Murray House (Jordan hill), The Fiennes Centre (Banbury)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week – Monday – Friday on shift rota 8am - 4pm / 9am - 5pm / 10am - 6pm
Trust: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Role type: Temporary for 6 months with possibility of becoming permanent
Role Details
To provide multi-site comprehensive administrative support across all of the Community Hospital wards and outpatient departments, to enable delivery of a first-class patient journey. There are 6 Community Hospital sites covering Oxfordshire and flexibility on location of workplace will be required daily
Duties required
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To provide the tasks and responsibilities listed below across 8 Community Hospitals wards, working where required on a daily basis. Cover will include administration, ward clerk and reception duties as required by the site.
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Assist the team in all administration duties relating to the day to day running of the reception and outpatients’ service.
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Provide a high standard of administration support to the Ward Management team.
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Prioritise your own workload and act independently within appropriate guidelines.
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To be competent on EMIS (patients electronic health record system), to become a champion and RA agent for the system to support all staff with training updates.
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Support with all areas of the electronic rostering system Health Roster. This includes; printing out the weekly staff roster, making shift changes on the system, escalating vacant shifts in accordance with the trust policy to staffing solutions and updating the system accordingly.
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Updating the ward equipment spreadsheet with all new items.
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E-procurement – electronic ordering of stock supplies
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Support with room booking requests for teams and individuals.
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Accurately type and distribute correspondence, minutes and other documents.
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Perform general office duties including: responding to email and phone enquiries. Answering the telephone, taking and recording messages accurately, responding to queries appropriately, following Trust procedures and protocols organise the maintenance of the filing systems.
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Take accurate action notes and minutes as required arranging meetings and maintaining diaries.
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Assist other team members in their work as required.
This role may require you to show evidence of vocational level 3 qualification or at least 2 years relevant experience.
You’ll learn the following whilst working at the trust:
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An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS
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Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times
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A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation
You’ll have the following skills/experience:
As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:
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Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
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Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
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Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
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Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
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Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
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Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more
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Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us
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Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours
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We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.
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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.
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