Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma & Orthopaedics
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed term: 16 months (.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 153-SU03476
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole Hospital
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Support Secretary/Admin Clerk in Trauma and Orthopaedics
Band 3
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an Admin/Support Secretary to join the Trauma and Orthopaedic Department on a fixed term basis for 16 months.
The role will provide booking fracture clinic appointments plus administration and secretarial services to the Orthopaedic Secretariat. The successful applicant should have experience in booking appointments within a hospital as well as excellent typing skills, good organisational skills and the ability to work within a team as well as unsupervised.
For further details please contact [email protected] Tel: 0300 019 2260.
Additional contact details:
Phoebe Gibbons [email protected] Tel; 0300 019 2732
This post is full time 37.5 hours per week.
Base Location Poole and Bournemouth
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
To book fracture clinic appointments on the system and to phone patients accordingly.
To provide support to the secretaries within the department undertaking typing of ward rounds and clinic letters.
Undertake any clerical duties required by the team including any non-clinical administration duties as requested by the team
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To book fracture clinic appointments on the system and to phone patients accordingly.
To provide support to the secretaries within the department undertaking typing of ward rounds and clinic letters.
Undertake any clerical duties required by the team including any non-clinical administration duties as requested by the team
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard of general education to include GCSE (or equivalent) in English and numeracy.
- RSA II or equivalent with good level of speed and accuracy.
Desirable criteria
- Working in healthcare organisation.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of patient administration systems.
- Experinece of general office duties
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Janine Short
- Job title
- Rota and Staffing Manager in Trauma & O
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 2260
- Additional information
Phoebe Gibbons
0300 019 2732
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