Health Records Assistant

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

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Job overview

2 Posts - Full time 37.5 hpw

We are looking to recruit highly motivated and enthusiastic team players who can demonstrate high standards of reception and administrative skills to join the Health Records Team. The successful candidates will be based at Wansbeck Hospital or North Tyneside Hospital however, they may be required to work at Hexham Hospital or Seaton Delaval to ensure a high quality service is provided at all times.

The successful candidates must be flexible and able to adjust to the requirements of the service to cover various shifts, including weekends and all Bank Holidays.

This is a demanding role and the post holder must be able to work under pressure to meet the needs of the service. Full training will be given to allow the successful candidate to work as part of the team in the Central Medical Records Library, Medical Records Hubs, Main Outpatients at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham Hospitals, Gynecology, Antenatal, Morpeth View and Main Reception areas.

Experience of working with the general public and being able to demonstrate professionalism at all times is an essential part of this role.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received

"Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

Main duties of the job

There is a physical element to the role involving moving and handling of flatbeds and trollies, use of stepladders and standing for long periods when working in reception areas.

Customer orientated service compliant with the Trust confidentiality policy in line the GDPR.

Receiving patients and visitors into the reception areas with accurate and efficient recording and process of patient activity using NHS computer systems including Patient Administration System (PAS) and Mediviewer.

Work in partnership with colleagues in the Health Records Hubs, wards and departments across the Trust to provide a high-quality service to enhance the patient experience.

To provide non-clinical advice to patients, relatives, the public and internal and external agencies.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Good interpersonal skills for effective communication with patients and service users.

Good numeracy, literacy and keyboard skills to enable accurate data capture.

Work as part of the larger Health Records Team and under the guidance of a Team Leader to ensure that a high-quality service is provided.

Good knowledge of GDPR.

Ability to prioritise and organise workload with competing and changing priorities.

To provide non-clinical advice to patients, relatives, the public and internal and external agencies.

Be flexible and able to adjust to the requirements of the service to cover various shifts, including weekends and Bank Holidays.

Share knowledge and skills with colleagues to maintain excellence in customer care through good service delivery in all areas of the department.

Follow corporate and local policies in all areas of work.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to NVQ level 2 or equivalent
• English and Mathematics or be able to demonstrate good numeracy or literacy skills.
• Qualification in Health Records or Related profession

Experiance

• Good knowledge of the Data Protection Act.
• Experience of working/dealing with the public
• Experience of working in hospital based Health Records or related service within the National Health Service
• Understanding of the NHS organization and its implications for Health Records and associated services

Other

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

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Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

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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.

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