Medical Secretary Upper GI Unit - Salisbury, United Kingdom - Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

    Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
    Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Salisbury, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    Part time
    Description

    Job overview

    We are looking for a medical secretary to join our Upper GI department on a part time basis. The hours will be 22.5hours a week worked Wednesday to Friday. As a medical secretary in the Upper GI department you will provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative service to the Consultant(s) and their teams.

    We are looking for someone with experience of working as a secretary or in similar in busy healthcare environment. Comprehensive IT skills with knowledge of Microsoft packages, including Outlook diary management are key for this role. Training will be provided to use the IT systems the trust use.

    Main duties of the job

    Producing clinical letters and documents using Electronic Patient Records, collect and collate investigations. Responding efficiently and effectively to telephone queries from patients, parents/guardians and other health care professionals by offering non- clinical advice.

    Working independently, you will be able to prioritise and manage your own workload, responding to the needs of the department. You will offer secretarial support to any admin team when other staff members are away.

    For full details of roles and responsibilities please see attached job description.

    Working for our organisation

    Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

    We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

    We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

    Detailed job description and main responsibilities

    Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

    Person specification

    Achieved Grades

    Essential criteria

  • Experience
  • Achieved grades
  • We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-

  • Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
  • Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
  • An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months)
  • Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
  • Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
  • An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
  • Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Uniform provided (where required)
  • On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
  • On site health and fitness club
  • On site car parking
  • Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.