Job overview

Our Filing Clerk's primary purpose will be to assist  in the development of an effective and efficient Health & Social Care Records service. To undertake accurate filing and maintenance of records, ensuring their timely archiving and maintaining systems to support these aims. We will be developing and progressing with some scanning of the records and this person will play a vital role in making sure data is scanned correctly.  Some basic spread sheet work will be required, but training will be given. 

Come and join us and help to keep our patient data safe and confidential.

Main duties of the job

Some of our records can be quite large due to the environment we work in and also the fact that some of our service users will have accessed services for a long time.  This does mean the record is very detailed and we need someone methodical and organised when looking at the filing of papers to the correct record / scanning.

We need someone who is a good team player, willing to help keep the team organised and making sure archives are accessible with good housekeeping and records are traced and tracked to enable immediate retrieval.

This person will also help with destruction of records and will need to have an eye for detail in making sure the correct record is confidentially destroyed.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.  

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.