Data Input Clerk

Overview

The post holder will work in all sections of the department providing an administration and secretarial service as well as assisting with specimen reception, computerised data entry, retrieval, form scanning and slide filing. They will work as part of the Cytology team delivering a high quality secretarial and specimen sorting service to the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, assisting the Trust in its delivery of patient care with particular reference to meeting Cancer Plant Targets and National Guidelines for the Cytology Screening Programme.

The post holder will also assist with quality control and quality assurance procedures associated with the receipting and filing processes deployed within the department and will work effectively as a team member to provide a professional clinical cytology laboratory service.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow.

We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients. We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by the CQC and have achieved numerous awards, including the Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

• Receiving and signing for samples and other items into the laboratory.
• Sorting, numbering and bar coding cytological specimens, including identifying and removing high‑risk samples for further processing in the non‑gynae prep lab.
• Entering sample and patient details onto the departmental computer system, which may require obtaining or verifying additional or incomplete information from the hospital PAS system and/or by telephoning sample takers directly.
• Filing slides.
• Identifying and reporting to senior staff any malfunction of equipment or process.
• Assisting with the receipting and filing of cytological samples received into the department.
• Assisting with quality control and quality assurance procedures associated with the receipting and filing processes deployed within the department.

• Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust rated as "Good" by the CQC.
• Multiple awards:
  Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
• Diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service.

We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on‑boarding process.