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    Admin Support- Diabetes and Endocrinology, Band 2 - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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    Job summary

    Admin Support- Diabetes and Endocrinology, Band 2 (15 hours a week)

    Working in a administrative support role within the Diabetes & Endocrinology Department.

    We are looking for candidates with exceptional organisation, interpersonal skills, and the ability to work well as part of a team but also to work on their own initiative.

    The department is fast moving with new challenges in this evolving specialty.

    Main duties of the job

    The main duties of the job include:

    Collection and delivery of notes in the department

    -Booking of any required appointments

    Setting up and formatting letters for our team of diabetes nurses.

    Filing of clinical documentation

    Dealing with departmental post

    About us

    The service will offer a supportive environment for learning and development and the opportunity to build upon existing knowledge and experience in this role.

    The Diabetes team are a friendly department that work to a high standard to ensure we are delivering a high standard of patient care.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Typing correspondence to patients, GPs, medical staff and any other required addressee following clinical attendance or other patient contacts using digital dictation or via Dragon voice recognition.

    Ensuring incoming post and results is sorted, any appropriate action taken and passed to the team on a daily basis.

    Deal with enquiries by letter/e-mail/telephone from patients, GPs, other hospitals, other consultants and management.

    Liaising with external organisations for the benefit and progress of patient care, such as Social Services, other hospitals, etc.

    Using speciality databases for recording patient information/clinic activity for audit/survey purposes, as well as sending out any associated paperwork.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Educated to GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent) in literacy and numeracy
  • Proficiency keyboard skills
  • Desirable

  • Experience in MS packages
  • Knowledge and Experience

    Essential

  • General knowledge of office duties. Awareness of health and safety issues, risk management and data protection.
  • Desirable

  • 1 years' experience in a hospital of office environment
  • Skills

    Essential

  • Good command of English, punctuation and grammar
  • Flexible team worker
  • Ability to work under instruction.
  • Good communication and social skills.
  • Ability to use own initiative
  • Desirable

  • Ability to deal with complex situations.


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