
Medical Records Team Leader
Brighton Hospital | Administration | Permanent | Full Time |
Up to £30,000 depending on skills and experience
37.5 hours a week
Nuffield Health is Britain’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organisation. Join us as a Medical Records Team Leader in our Brighton Hospital and play your part in building a healthier nation.
We are looking for a dynamic, self-starter with strong leadership qualities to lead a growing team that plays an integral role within the patient journey.
The medical records department plays a crucial role within the Hospital, creating and maintaining all patient records and ensuring they are available to all departments throughout the patient’s journey at the Hospital.
Following a successful period of growth and increased activity, the need has arisen for a Team Lead to aid in the day to day management of the department ensuring that the high standards are maintained. Continued growth and development of the team will be paramount to the applicant’s success.
The role will require you to manage the day to day running of the department, which will include but is not limited to:
Managing team rota, ensuring cover is arranged for all gaps in the rotas and personally covering any unfilled shifts.
Lead, motivate and supervise the team
Implement training to ensure staff have required skills to perform competently and are able to maintain the high standards expected of them
Carry out Process improvement exercise to highlight key areas of improvement
Undertake regular team meetings, and 1-2-1 performance reviews
Effectively manage the quality and flow of data coming into the department, in line with GDPR regulations.
You will be required to liaise with all stakeholders of the Hospital, such as members of the Clinical teams, Leadership teams and also Consultants and their Medical Secretaries.
Essential:
Experience in leading a team of 5+ members
Medical Records experience
Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Possess strong leadership qualities
Competent IT skills
Must be a self-starter, with the ability to make an impact with immediate effect
Commercially aware
Previous Process mapping/improvement experience
Change Implementation experience
Able to develop key relationships within the organisation
Desirable
Previous Healthcare experience
Experience of working in a similar, Patient/Customer note handling role
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We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital
At Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital, we work with leading medical Consultants to provide first-class treatments and high standards of care for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide range of medical and surgical conditions using the latest facilities and technology. We take pride in delivering high standards of patient care to both private patients and the NHS. Our facilities include 44 purpose built en-suite rooms, 3 operating theatres plus 1 endoscopy theatre. Other facilities include physiotherapy and a diagnostic department. We are located in Woodingdean, on the east side of Brighton with easy access by rail and road, including free parking.
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Welcome to Nuffield Health, the UK’s leading not-for-profit healthcare organisation*.
As a not-for-profit with no shareholders, we invest all our income back into our family of award-winning 37 hospitals, 114 fitness and wellbeing clubs, healthcare clinics, over 200 workplace wellbeing services, as well as developing flagship collaborations supporting our communities – all to realise our vision to build a healthier nation.
What makes us unique is our unrivalled award winning and industry leading network of health and wellbeing services. Only Nuffield Health has the wide-ranging expertise to provide connected care. We attract some of the best people in their specialist fields, who take a personalised approach so we can provide the best possible care and support now and in the future – wherever they are on their journey. All for the public benefit. So, it’s no surprise that we’re trusted by the NHS, Private Medical Insurers, employers and the general public to provide exceptional health and wellbeing services to the nation.
We’re committed to our vision of building a healthier nation.
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* Nuffield Health is a Registered Charity. Our objective is to advance, promote and maintain health and healthcare of all descriptions and to prevent, relieve and cure sickness and ill health of any kind, all for the public benefit. Registered Charity Numbers 205533 (England and Wales) and SC041793 (Scotland).