Ward Clerk - Band 2
Brooklands Hospital - Inpatient wards.
37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday
We are looking to recruit to an administrative support role largely based on in-patient wards located at Brooklands Hospital for the Learning Disabilities and Autism Directorate.
Brooklands is a purpose built hospital, consisting of six specialist separate units, providing inpatient assessment and treatments services to adults and children who are living with a learning disability. It is a Centre of Excellence and hosts a several different services as detailed below.
• Learning Disability Assessment and Treatment Service
• Medium Secure Learning Disability Service (male)
• Low Secure Learning Disability Service (male)
• Low Secure Learning Disability Service (female)
• Young Persons’ Learning Disability Service
• Adolescent Learning Disability Service
The service accepts patients from the West and East Midlands region and beyond.
The post-holder will be required to work within an integrated and skill mixed team, providing an effective and efficient admin support to clinical staff across the site. You will be required to learn different admin functions in order to provide input to the clinical and admin teams. Due to the nature of the role you must be able to multi-task under pressure and work autonomously and flexibly to meet the needs of the service. This will be an interesting and varied role and we are, therefore, looking for individuals with a positive approach to change and who are supportive of service improvements. There is an expectation that within time, you will be able to move across wards in line with service needs.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
The post-holder will need to share our values of compassion, respect and empathy towards service users, carers, and colleagues whilst maintaining the highest standards of courtesy, confidentiality and tact. In addition, you will need to have appropriate computer skills to be able to undertake data inputting, collation of information, use of e-mails, etc. Full training will be provided for systems use, eg Carenotes (patient system), tracking, etc.
Please note that the successful candidate will require a DBS check.
Any applicants will be shortlisted and interviewed in accordance with the Trust’s Recruitment and Selection Policy.
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Dec 2023
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