Clerical Officer - MAU1/Health Records /GOPD

About the Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

To provide a patient administration service within the Health Records Department, which administratively underpins the patient's journey to and through the hospital, both inpatient and outpatient care, to meet the needs of patients and health care professionals.

The working pattern for this role is - Monday, Thursday & Friday - 15:00pm - 23:00pm

In this key role, you will

• Ensure confidentiality of patient information is maintained at all times.
• Ensure accurate maintenance and update of the patient/clinical management systems.
• Provide cover to the Department Helpdesk service: answer all telephone enquiries and all other enquiries, and ensure appropriate action is taken. Deal with all telephone enquiries from other sources.
• Ensure immediate dispatch of supplementary folders to Wards for patient emergency and patient elective admissions, ensuring that the supplementary folders have been appropriately prepared.

What You'll Bring

• Educated to standard grade.
• Knowledge of health records gained through 2 years experience and/or qualification at SVQ level 2, ECDL or equivalent.
• Customer care skills.
• Computer literate and keyboard skills.

A driving licence is required; this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

What we Offer

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children's settings.