Band 3 - Ward Clerk, CED/PAU

at  West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Register and record patient details and admit them onto the relevant computer systems, ensuring that accuracy and confidentiality are maintained. Identify and include any missing data items such as NHS numbers, GP and ethnicity, using Summary Care Records and other appropriate sources. Organise the administration of the admission of patients to other clinical areas using the patient administration system. Ensure appropriate notes are photocopied as requested by nursing staff for patients requiring transfer to other clinical areas or external hospitals.
Provide administrative support to the nursing/medical staff, carrying out general tasks such as photocopying notes, booking transport. Maintain the departments registration and filing system. Observe confidentiality and adhere to the Trusts Information Governance policy at all times. Print a casualty card, ID labels and wrist band for emergency patients presenting to CED resuscitation area.
Check NHS numbers for every patient booked into the department on the NHS spine

Please refer the Job description for details