Medical Secretary

Job Title: Medical Secretary

Location: University Hospital of North Tees

Hours: 37.5 Monday to Friday 8.30 to 16.30

Trust Location: Hardwick Road, Hardwick, Stockton-on-Tees TS19 8PE

Payrate: £12.86/HR

What you'll be responsible for:

• Provide a comprehensive secretarial and administrative support service to clinicians and their associated staff, following all relevant operational policies, procedures, and work practices, to ensure the timely processing of all patient related information, including clinic letters, reports, referrals, appointments etc.
• Preparing agenda's, inviting attendees, taking, and typing minutes of meetings
• Typing of Urgent and Complex documents, i.e. emergency health care plans, discharges, clinic letters, reports, arranging DNAR etc. for clinicians using appropriate technologies and processing as directed.
• Maintain the electronic diaries of clinicians, organising meetings, study leave, annual leave, etc, using appropriate technology.
• Arrange for any further investigation requests, second opinion forms, prescription requests etc. are communicated to the correct dept / clinician, ensuring the requests are recorded in the patient record immediately and documents are sent in a timely manner to the required recipient, and scanned into the patient record.
• Ensure clinic outcome letters have been dictated the same day for each patient listed on a clinic and for patients who have received a telephone consultation. Confirm that the dictations are available for transcription within the required timescales and ensure any missing clinic letters are highlighted to the appropriate consultant to dictate, with escalation to the senior leads where required. Daily completion and monitoring of the compliance form and related spreadsheet.

You'll learn the following whilst working at the trust:

1. An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS
2. Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times
3. A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation

You'll have the following skills/experience:

• Excellent telephone manner
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Excellent IT skills
• Audio typing skills/Med Sec experience

This role may require you to show evidence of vocational level 3 qualification or at least 2 years relevant experience.

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

• Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
• Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
• Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
• Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your "My Bank" shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
• Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements.
• Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more.
• Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us.
• Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

Who are NHS Professionals?

We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.

As an equal opportunities' organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination based on age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

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