Ward Clerk - Elysium Healthcare : Job Details

Join the team at Middlewood Clinic as a Ward Clerk and enjoy a career where you will be valued and supported in everything you do.

Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will provide day-to-day administrative support for the wards, including updating service users information, managing the ward diary, updating service users timetables and minute taking.

As a Ward Clerk, you will be responsible for arranging meetings and typing up all correspondence and documentations. 

At Elysium, we want the best for you. That’s why you will have continuous access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you means better care. That’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

As a Ward Clerk you will be: 

• Supporting the admin team with general administration and providing clerical and typing duties
• Use of information technology to produce various documents and electronic information.
• Manage, organise, and update relevant data using database applications including electronic rostering system.
• Maintaining and updating filing and record-keeping systems
• Updating of information (primary nurse lists, ward posters etc.)
• Answering and directing calls as required
• Assist wards as required, e.g. typing duties, stationery, recording of service user medical appointments, liaising with the Ward to ensure ward diary/Shared Calendar entries are updated/correspond etc.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office programmes
• Excellent organisational and communication skills
• Ability to respond to changes in service / adaptable / open to change.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Organises and priorities own work within established procedures but refers more complex issues to the relevant manager.

Communications will be with service users, as well as with other staff, and will regularly require some judgement, as information will need to be gathered to facilitate correct administrative records. The nature of the role means that the role holder may very occasionally be faced with some challenging situations.

Where you will be working:

Location:  Little Ashfield, Midhurst, West Sussex, GU29 9JP 

Middlewood Clinic provide care and treatment for men and women who have an eating disorder including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and atypical eating disorders. Subject to CQC registration our approach will be to restore a healthy body weight and address psychological problems during treatment.  

The Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) at Middlewood Clinic will be made up of the Registered Manager, Consultant Psychiatrist, Nurses, Healthcare Workers, Psychologist, Dietician, Occupational Therapist and Social Worker. 

The hospital will have 12 comfortable ensuite bedrooms and a variety of communal and recreational spaces including lounge areas, a light and airy dining room, activities room, visitors room, therapy rooms, therapy kitchen area and a lovely cottage style garden. 

What you will get:

• Annual salary of £25,000
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. 

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. 

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.