Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Secretary
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- 12 months (Full time 12-month fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 350-CC186402
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Liverpool Women's Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Medical Secretary
Band 4
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Medical Secretary to join our administration team that supports our Specialist Perinatal Service. The successful candidate will also be required to provide flexible administration and clerical cover across the division when required to support the needs of the service
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be able to organise their own workload and co-ordinate workload activities, have excellent interpersonal skills and a friendly telephone manner. There is a need to be able to work to tight deadlines and withstand the pressure of a busy department and it is essential that you are able to work as part of a multi disciplinary team and on your own initiative.
To provide an efficient audio, copy typing and word processing service. Processing all in a timely, accurate and quality manner
Take comprehensive minutes for team meetings and clinical consultation, such as weekly Multi Disciplinary Meetings (MDT)
Have excellent IT and communication skills to support a high standard of care. The post holder will be an excellent typist, preferably to RSA level 2 & with audio transcription skills.
You will be required to provide secretarial and admin support across the division when required
Please refer to the Job Description for full list of duties.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide a high standard of secretarial and administration support to members of the clinical team
- Maintain a good working relationship with clinicians & caring professionals
- Attend & take minutes at a variety of clinical meetings.
- Produce patient letters to a high standard
Please refer to the Job Description for full list of duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RSA/OCR II Typing/Word Processing
- GCSE English
- Positive attitude to further training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Aware of need for confidentiality
- Flexible working
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
- Good communication skills
- Motivated
- Discreet manner
- Confident manner
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standard
- Responsive to service users
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Use of Microsoft Word / Powerpoint/Excel
- Secretarial experience
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
- Louise Kirby
- Job title
- Deputy Operational Admin Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07584 110 256
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