Job Description
Do you have the energy and drive to make a real difference? Do you have exceptional communication skills and an ability to maintain composure under pressure? If so, we would like to hear from you.
Team Surgery is now recruiting for a Clinical Administrator for our bed management team on the Denmark Hill site. This is an exciting opportunity to play a central part in the way we run our surgical wards; ensuring that our patients have access to the right care, without delay.
As a Clinical Administrator within the surgical division you will:
- Support the wards, bed mangers and Discharge Co-ordinators (DISCOSs) in the management of patients through the trust from admission to discharge.
- To support the bed managers with a cohort of patients discharge planning and support
- To identify all complex discharges and hand over to the DISCOs
- To be a two-way conduit for information to wards, DISCOs on board rounds and at MDM
- To attend trust meetings identifying escalation points within the division
- To help support and facilitate the repatriation of trauma and long stay patients.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
- To track patient investigations, identifying any delays and taking appropriate actions to make sure they are carried out in a timely manner
- To monitor, white boards, ward reviews and EPR to facilitate patient investigations and communicating with the Ward Co-ordinator regarding problems with these
- To have an accurate and up-to-date overview of daily discharges that will be happening within the wards and to be responsible for providing information about available bed numbers to the bed manager
- To be the main communication point for ongoing tests/investigations, ensuring that requests are acted on and that patients not delayed unnecessarily
- To attend daily board rounds and MDM and to act on requests, feeding back to the appropriate person
- To facilitate timely writing of TTAs so as to ensure the patients are discharged in a timely manner working with the junior doctors and pharmacy
- To review all patients daily, identifying any new cases requiring case management by the DISCO