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    Medical Secretary/Personal Assistant - London, United Kingdom - AMSPAR

    AMSPAR
    AMSPAR London, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    £8.72
    Description

    NHS medical secretaries make sure that our frontline staff are able to dedicate their time to patient care while personal assistants support senior staff, managementand leaders.

    Working environment

    As a medical secretary or personal assistant, you'll usually work for a senior member of staff or group of staff. This could be in variety of organisations, a generalpractice, a pharmacy or hospital. It can also include the private and charity sectors. You'll support the work of a department by taking on administrative and secretarial tasks. Forexample:

    typing
    arranging meetings and taking minutes
    managing diaries
    arranging travel or home visits
    dealing with enquiries
    taking phone calls
    ordering stationery
    dealing with post and emails
    creating and updating spreadsheets and databases

    You could be based in clinical areas such as:

    hospital departments of all types
    specialist clinics, including cancer centres or accident and emergency units
    GP surgeries and health centres

    You may have contact with patients and their families as well as with healthcare staff and other admin staff.

    Personal assistants may also be based in non-clinical areas such as NHS headquarters buildings where there is little or no contact with patients.Medicalsecretaries/personal assistants may supervise a team of admin/secretarial staff such as clerks or typists

    Entry requirements, skills and interests

    Medical secretaries/personal assistants have usually worked elsewhere in the NHS so they have experience of medical terminology and NHS ways of working.

    There are no set entry requirements for a medical secretary/personal assistant. However, employers expect excellent keyboard skills. They may ask for qualifications intyping or word processing. Employers also expect a good standard of literacy, numeracy and IT skills. They may ask for GCSEs or equivalent qualifications. You may be able to enteran apprenticeship through an administrative role and through further training and qualifications, progress to more senior roles as a medical secretary or personal assistant.

    They support the work of a department or whole organisation.

    Personal characteristics

    As a medical secretary or personal assistant, you'll need to :

    work accurately and methodically
    meet deadlines
    use medical terminology
    pay attention to detail
    work in a team but use their own initiative
    work with all types of people
    be helpful and reassuring if dealing with patients and their families

    Skills required :

    excellent keyboard skills
    IT skills
    good spelling and grammar
    organisational skills

    Pay and Conditions

    Medical secretaries and personal assistants in the NHS are paid on the agenda for change (afc) pay system. For this type of role your expected pay band would be3 or 4. With experience and/or an AMSPAR qualification you could progress to band 5. Terms and conditions will differ for health organisations outside of the NHS. Thiscould include general practice and pharmacies. Standard hours are generally 37.5 paid hours for a full-time contract. Flexible hours and part-time work are generally available. Depending on the employing organisation, the role could include early starts, weekends and evenings.

    Pay examples (hourly rate) :

    From 1st April 2020

    National Living Wage Adult £8.72

    Living Wage Foundation

    Band 3 <1 year £10.09 rising to £10.81

    Band 4 <1 year £11.19 rising to £12.35

    Band 5 <1 Year £12.74 rising to £15.66

    Training, development and career progression

    Where the role can lead :

    With experience become an administrator or middle manager or move to a specialist medical department or other areas such as finance, HR or clinical records. Moreopportunities now exist to move into other areas such as informatics (electronic data, IT).

    Your employing organisation will get the training you need to do the job. This includes an induction or introduction to the department/organisation, how to use the ITand phone equipment and the procedures to follow. You may also have training in customer care.

    You may be offered the chance to take qualifications such as our AMSPAR accredited courses. These are nationally recognised by the NHS and otherhealth organisations.

    AMSPAR accredited/approved qualifications

    I f you have any queries or wish to make an appointment, please contact us:

    Phone:

    X (Twitter): @AMSPARUK
    E-mail:

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