About this role
Job summary
This role is pivotal to ensuring patient safety in Infection Management, supporting key aspects of the OPAT service, and efforts in public health against Antimicrobial Resistance. It will impact direct patient care and implementing organisational actions for best practice. Duties will include accessing local and national systems and data extraction, populating reporting templates, and disseminating surveillance reports across the Trust. Excellent communication skills are essential, along with good computer skills, and familiarity with Microsoft. Training and development of this role will be provided on the job. The role will deal with relaying generic drug names and medical conditions on a daily basis.You will be responsible for organising paperwork, actions, and communications for key meetings with regards to Antimicrobial Stewardship. You will need to be able to work under pressure and prioritise according to deadlines and urgency. You will be given the opportunity to gain experience in developing educational campaigns and organising of study days. You will be involved in audit efforts and help relay important messages to improve patient care and safety. This is an intense role which will always be challenging, but also rewarding in equal measure, with an abundance of developmental opportunities for your portfolio.
Main duties of the job
Computing and accuracy skills will be essential for daily duties of information extraction from systems, and taking staff or public calls with complex information. Written and verbal communications will be a key part of each day, and you will be responsible for handling the office phone and shared inboxes.
You will need to have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be confident speaking to patients, nursing staff, prescribers, other health care staff and departments. Some of the communication will be related to clinical matters, others will be with regards to organisational actions and processes such as administrative tasks for meetings, chasing actions, updating content on digital platforms and supporting organising of educational campaigns.
You will support compilation of regular data based reports, and registers for patient caseloads, and will be responsible for navigating multiple systems. The mix of timelines for tasks and understanding of prioritisation will require good organisational skills and adaptability to change.
About us
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Job description Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description, attached, for details of the duties and main responsibilities. The administrative role will be within a specialist team and differs from support worker duties elsewhere in the pharmacy department and organisation. You will report to the Consultant Antimicrobial Pharmacist.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
GCSE at grade 'C' or above (or equivalent) to include English Language RSA III or equivalent competency NVQ3 qualification or equivalent experience/ competencies
Desirable
ECDL Professional audit qualification
Previous Experience Essential
Experience of working in health/social care environment
Desirable
Experience of the NHS
Evidence of particular skills, knowledge and Aptitudes Essential
Good verbal communications skills. Computer literacy Ability to manage competing priorities/ workload and complete tasks accurately and efficiently to meet deadlines Experience of using Microsoft software packages; Word, Excel, Outlook and the internet for basic research Able to remain calm under pressure Good understanding of information governance Ability to work effectively with other team members Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework
Desirable
Knowledge of health related data systems
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Employer details Employer name United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Address Lincoln County Hospital
Lincoln
LN2 5QY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ulh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)