District Nursing Administrator – Band 3
An opportunity has arisen for Administrators in the District Nursing Service working in the borough of Enfield.
Candidates will be prepared to travel around the borough providing administrative support to busy district nursing teams, as well as also being part of a busy district nursing referrals office taking calls from the public, processing referrals from hospitals and GP surgeries around the borough.
The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of patient information systems; have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and experience of working within a team.
Main duties of the job
To take referrals and messages ensuring they are logged and passed on to the appropriate clinician in line with indicative urgency. To liaise with patients and their carers, relatives, Social Services, members of the Primary Healthcare Team and any other agencies as appropriate, maintaining confidentiality and treating all situations with sensitivity and tact.
To record referrals and retrieve patient information using the RiO Data Management System.
To scan referrals and upload them into the patient information system in an accurate and secure manner.
To disseminate other information to clinical teams and managers as requested.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile
