Medical Secretary

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Job Title - Medical Secretary - Gynaecology

Hours per week -30 Hours per week - Secondment Cover

Perm/Fixed Term - Fixed term: 10 months (secondment would be considered)

Salary -£25,147 -£27,596 per annum

Closing Date- 6th September 2023

Interview Date: 11th September 2023

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications so you are advised to apply promptly.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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To work as part of a speciality team providing full secretarial support for the consultants and junior medical staff in the team.The post holder will work closely with the Team in ensuring that all clinics are typed speedily and accurately according to the guidelines laid down by the Trust.

Responsible for the audio typing of clinic tapes, reports, discharge summaries etc.

The George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is a value led organisation and as such we expect that all employees will be accountable for upholding the Trust’s values and be responsible for your own attitude and behaviour.

To ensure that all Trust performance standards for turnaround times are maintained and adhered to.

Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:

Effective Open Communication

Excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Our benefits include but are not limited to: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

To work as part of a speciality team.Responsible for the typing of all correspondence relating to outpatients and inpatients as well as typing departmental correspondence.

Receives enquiries from patients and staff, resolving straightforward enquiries and forwarding more complex issues to the most appropriate member of the team.Liaise professionally with all departments regarding admissions, waiting lists, ad hoc ward attenders and cancellations ensuring hospital policies are adhered to. To organise meetings and appointments for the consultants and thespecialityteam and make adjustments in line with agreed protocols where necessary.To set up and maintain filing systems ensuring all documents are accurately and are appropriately archived.

To obtain investigation results and exercise judgement to ensure that medical attention is urgently drawn to histology and urgent telephoned results and all results are filed in the patient’s records.

To take responsibility for tracking patients notes in the office.To open and distribute post, prioritising any urgent post and ensuring relevant documentation is attached in addition to acting promptly and appropriately to all e-mail correspondence.