Job summary
- Main area
- Record Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 325-6446224-CORP
- Employer
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 18 Mole Business Park
- Town
- Leatherhead
- Salary
- £29,828 - £36,311 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Records Officer
NHS AfC: Band 5
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Records Officer to become part of our dynamic and busy Records Management Team. The successful candidate will be tasked with delivering an effective, efficient, and confidential records management service of the highest quality for the Trust.
This position is ideal for individuals seeking a dynamic, challenging, and multifaceted environment where they can develop and maintain effective working relationships with a diverse array of internal and external stakeholders.
Please do get in touch if you would like to talk further about this role.
Main duties of the job
The main purpose of this role is to support the Records Managers to produce an effective, efficient, confidential and high-quality records management service for the Trust, in accordance with best practice, the Trust’s Records Management Policy and Procedures and the Department of Health’s statutory requirements. This includes offering expert advice and support on records management to other services across the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description attached, for further information around the duties and responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree of equivalent experience or equivalent qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of records management and data protection legislation through working with health records or clinical experience/clinical environment
- Knowledge of implementing the processes required using the current Data protection legislation particularly the UK-GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
- Knowledge of the Caldicott and Data Protection Act Principles
- Knowledge of Court/Police Procedures through working with health records or clinical experience/clinical environment
- Knowledge of electronic health record systems, including scanning and uploading correspondence and processing confidential information
- At least 2 years’ experience of working in an office environment and working with databases
- Experience of recording and communicating information accurately and appropriately and in line with quality standards
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
- Kim McArdle
- Job title
- Records Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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