Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 343-6987555-FM-NP-A-Y
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom
- Town
- Epsom
- Salary
- £27,129 - £28,649 Pro-rata pa incl HCAS (Outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Typist Paediatrics Epsom
Band 3
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic person to work within our Division based at Epsom General Hospital to support our performance with 10 day turnaround of patients letters. Experience within the NHS and Paediatrics are desirable but not essential. The successful applicant needs to have a flexible approach to work and have excellent typing and administration skills and to be comfortable working within a team.
Interview Date:TBC
Main duties of the job
Work with Dictate IT to review letter accuracy – add any information needed. Full typing skills and ability to work with clinical correspondence according to clinical priority in line with agreed standards and accuracy and within the locally and nationally agreed timeframes.
Promptly file case notes, correspondence and investigation results.
Ensure that all correspondence is checked and digitally signed by the appropriate consultant and sent out appropriately.
E-mail clinical correspondence to GP/originating referrer and send copy letters to patient.
Maintain quality assurance, accuracy, quality and turnaround times.
To liaise and work with patient pathway coordinators.
To prioritise own workload appropriately, referring any service concerns to the Team Leader in a timely manner.
Handle data relating to patients of a confidential nature, ensuring appropriate treatment of confidential information.
Upload and download voice files and maintain the voice file tracking system.
Maintain good relationships with patients and other members of staff, ensuring a high degree of confidentiality and integrity at all times.
Working for our organisation
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard general education
- RSA II Typewriting, word processing or equivalent
- AMSPAR qualification
Desirable criteria
- RSA II typing or equivalent
- Medical terminology qualification
- ECDL
- NVQ Level 2 Admin and Clerical
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clerical experience including typing services
- Customer care experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS experience
- Experience of using digital transcription equipment
skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills.
- Knowledge of medical terminology
- Fast and accurate audio typing skills and ability to accurately transcribe complex audio voice files
- Accurate touch typing
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Comm Paediatrics
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sania Rizvi
- Job title
- W&C Service Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02082964594
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