Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Support
- Grade
- Band 3-4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 328-CD-6320075
- Employer
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The James Cook University Hospital
- Town
- Middlesbrough
- Salary
- £22,816 - £27,596 Per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
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Medical Secretary
Band 3-4
Job overview
Post holders will be appointed at band 3 or band 4 depending upon previous experience as laid out in the Trust's development framework for medical secretaries. The framework provides a clear progression to allow post holders to progress from band 3 to band 4 within the post subject to a formal evaluation in role (this would take 18 months to progress from Band 3 to Band 4).
We are looking for an experienced secretary to join the clinical administration and clerical teams at The James Cook University Hospital. The post is available within the specialty of Radiology. This offers excellent opportunities for enthusiastic and conscientious people to provide a comprehensive medical secretarial service to consultants, junior medical and specialist nursing staff in an efficient and timely manner, assisting in the organisation of their workload and contributing to the overall success of the service.
Main duties of the job
You will have previous medical secretarial and administrative experience, preferably in a health care setting. It is essential that you have strong IT skills, a good level of general education, an extensive knowledge of Office and Outlook (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email and internet) along with advanced typing/word processing qualifications/skills.
Please note this post may close at sufficient applicants.
Working for our organisation
Leadership and Improvement Training
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the New and Aspiring leaders programme, and the Foundation Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. After you complete this one and a half day of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Details of the full job description and person specification are available to view when you click to apply for the vacancy and click on the ‘about this job’ link and the documents will be attached at the bottom of the screen.
Person specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent planning, prioritisation and organisational skills
- Understanding of secretarial/clerical processes
Desirable criteria
- Trust experience; knowledge of STHFT policies and procedures
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE in Maths and English or Functional Skills (level 2)
- NVQ3 level Secretarial or Business Administrative qualification, or equivalent level of demonstrable experience (using the ‘knowledge and skills’ criteria above)
Desirable criteria
- Medical Terminology qualification
- Audio-typing qualification
- Customer Care qualification level 2
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Smith
- Job title
- Radiology Modality Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01642 850850
- Additional information
Joanne Smith ext: 53608
Johanna Watson [email protected] ext 54786
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