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Job summary

Main area
General Surgery
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent: 8.30am to 4.30 pm or 9 am to 5 pm
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8.30am to 4.30 pm or 9 am to 5 pm)
Job ref
225-DIV1-6446817
Employer
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
New Cross Hospital
Town
Wolverhampton
Salary
£25,147 - £27,596 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/08/2024 12:00

Employer heading

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust logo

Team Senior Secretary

Band 4

 

 

Job overview

To work as part of a team taking a lead role in providing secretarial support for the consultants, junior medical staff within the team with particular responsibility for audio typing using a digital system.   

The post holder will be required to demonstrate a significant level of initiative in organising their workload and in making decisions and taking action in accordance with departmental policy.

Main duties of the job

To type all correspondence relating to out patients and in patients, including typing of departmental correspondence, with a low rate of errors and to meet Trust turnaround targets.

Regularly liaising with the manager to ensure departmental priorities are met.

Managing consultant’s diaries, booking meetings and taking minutes where appropriate.

Arrange patients new and follow up appointments as required using PAS system and liaison with appropriate departments

Receive enquires from patients and staff, resolving enquiries of a more complex nature and dealing with as appropriate.

Liaise professionally with all departments regarding admissions, waiting lists, ad hoc ward attenders and cancellations ensuring hospital policies are adhered to.

To provide cross cover for secretarial team during annual leave and sickness

Co-operate with the introduction of new procedures, policies or technology, including any technology associated with the Patient Administration System (PAS), assisting team leads with implementation

Working for our organisation

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 CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you an experienced Medical Secretary looking for your next career move?

Do you enjoy being part of a team that is passionate about providing the best possible service to patients?

Would you like to work for a Trust that is as committed to supporting you as it is to providing the highest standards of care?

If so this is your opportunity to join our friendly and committed team as a Senior Team Secretary within General Surgery.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • GCSE, O- LEVEL or Current new grading structure to include English
  • Experience - evidenced on application form and knowledge demonstrated at interview
Desirable criteria
  • Word & Text Processing II
  • Medical Word Processing
  • AMSPAR Medical Secretary Diploma

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerNursing Times Workforce Summit & Awards WinnerStep into health

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Bimla Devi
Job title
Assistant Directorate Support Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01902 481671
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