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Job summary

Main area
ED Reception
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
292-6231832-UEC
Employer
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
PAH
Town
Harlow
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 Plus 5% High Cost Area Supplement
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/05/2024 08:00

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The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust logo

Clerical Co-ordinator - Emergency Department

NHS AfC: Band 3

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping. 

Our values

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts. 

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.


 

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to join our team of Clerical Co-ordinators  at Princess Alexandra Hospital. Working with a busy team of administrative and clinical staff within the Adult Emergency Department this is a very rewarding role.

Assisting in the administration for the reception area in the Adult Emergency Department this post requires keyboard skills, customer service experience and the ability to multitask whilst working within a busy fast pace environment.

You will be required to provide a variety of clerical tasks including the registration of patients, maintaining patient records, filing, arranging for clinic appointments, answering telephone enquiries, data entry onto the hospital computer systems.

If you are seeking a challenge and possess the skills required this could be the right job for you.

This role is shift work and includes unsocial hours, involving nights, weekends and bank holidays on a rolling rota.

Main duties of the job

To register patients who attend the department, efficiently and accurately with the utmost confidentiality and deal with all phone calls in a professional manner.

To maintain high standards of record keeping, within patient’s hospital notes and the department’s filing system.

To liaise with all departments within the hospital and also with outside organisations such as GP surgeries, dentists, other hospitals etc, in the best interests of our patients.

To provide a professional, customer centred reception service to patients attending the Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust’s UEC Reception areas as operationally required. To be flexible to work within a range of areas within UEC.

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation  

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping. 

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire. 

Our Values 

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences: 

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts 

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both 

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care 

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification, available to download at any time.

Person specification

EDUCATION

Essential criteria
  • To GCSE Grades A-C in Maths and English or equivalent. NVQ level 2 or equivalent experience

person spec

Essential criteria
  • meets person spec

KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria
  • Previous clerical /admin experience
  • Understanding of Patient Confidentiality
  • Understanding of Data Protection Act
  • Record Keeping / Data Entry Experience
Desirable criteria
  • Previous NHS clerical experience dealing with the public

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mia Browne
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01279962235
Additional information

Mia Browne

Emergency Department Service Manager. 

01279962235

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