Medical Secretary - London, United Kingdom - St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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The medical secretary role is key to delivering an effective service to our patients.

This role provides efficient and high quality secretarial and administrative support to consultants and their teams, working in close co-operation with staff and other health professionals.

The medical secretary is an active and supportive member of the department's administrative team.

We are looking for someone with good experience within the NHS, who is enthusiastic and willing to learn.

You will need to have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate that you can work strongly within a team.

You will need to liaise with patients, clinicians at all levels and managers within the Trust and at external organizations.

Time management skills essential as you will need to balance the demands of a very busy workload.

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.

St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London.