Legal Records Assistant

Company: Royal Berkshire Nhs Foundation Trust
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Location: Reading
Job Description:

The primary role of the Legal Records Assistant requires the professional responsibility to ensuring all services are completed in a timely and accurate manner, meeting the requirements as set out in the Data Protection 1998 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The Legal Records Assistant is responsible for providing a high standard of records management services to the Royal Berkshire Hospital and satellite locations.

Working within the criteria of Trust Policy, the Legal Records Assistant will provide primary records management services, ensuring that all requested Health Records are located, retrieved and delivered to the requestor (clinic ward or admin area) within the departmental service level agreement (SLA), The role holder specifically assigned to the legal services department, will be responsible for ensuring their daily allocation of requests are managed accordingly.

The role holder will be part of the legal services team. The legal administrator will ensure daily allocation of record requests, together with record transfers and the return of spent records to the Records Library is completed.

As part of the wider team, the role holder will provide assistance (and will be provided assistance) should there be an unequal allocation of record requests or heavy workloads within their own, or other team members’ areas of responsibility. This change in work allocation will be coordinated by the legal administrator; however in their absence, the role holder will be responsible to work fairly within their team to achieve the departmental SLA.

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Posted: October 15th, 2026