Support Secretary - Colchester, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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Colchester, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Support Secretary in the Community Paediatric Team based at Colchester Hospital.


We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated person who is flexible and has excellent typing, administration and communication skills.

You will need to ensure all clinical correspondence is typed and processed within specific timescales.

You will work as part of a friendly secretarial team, in a busy and vibrant office. You will need to be able to prioritise your workload, work without directs supervision and also use your initiative.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS VACANCY MAY CLOSE EARLY IF WE RECEIVE A HIGH NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS - EARLY APPLICATIONS ARE ENCOURAGED

Consistent provision of comprehensive and efficient secretarial and administrative support.

To utilise and incorporate the required technology/hospital systems including Big Hand/Evolve/Medway and any other new technology or system(s) that are introduced.

To use your own initiative, managing, prioritising, planning and organising own time using extensive knowledge, skills and experience.


To be a 'Team Player' working in a way that encourages high performance from other staff, with the aim of maintaining optimum efficiency within the department.

To support other team members to deliver an efficient administrative and secretarial service


One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital & community health services to people living across a wide geographical area.

We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester & Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.


Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.


To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.


If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.


Duties will include typing of clinical correspondence, updating outcomes of clinical appointments, dealing with telephone queries, inputting data onto spreadsheets and other various tasks requested by the clinical team.

Full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role can be found on the attached job description
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