Apprentice Medical Secretary - Salisbury, United Kingdom - Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

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Salisbury, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Description

This is an apprenticeship post, therefore 20% off the job training is funded by the organisation for the 18 months of the apprenticeship, after which you will be a fully qualified Medical Secretary.

As an apprentice you will be working towards achieving the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to work within the scope of this Job Description.

To be responsible for providing secretarial and administrative support to the Consultants, Specialist Registrars and Trainees and Multi-disciplinary Teams (MDTs), thereby contributing to providing an efficient and comprehensive secretarial service, ensuring the effective day to day running of the department.

To assist in the organisation of the Consultants workload. To work independently, prioritising and managing own workload quickly and accurately, responding to the needs of the department.

To offer secretarial support to the admin team when other staff members are away.

Patient/Client Care:
contact with patients in person, in writing and by telephone, providing non-clinical information to patients.

Responsibility for Information Resources:
use of hospital patient information systems for patient letter generation. Use of results reporting systems to look up laboratory results.

Financial and Physical Resources:
use of own computer terminal and printer.

Human Resources:
Liaising directly with Consultants, junior medical staff, nursing teams and other multi-disciplinary professionals. To provide support for Band 2 admin staff supporting secretarial roles during absences.

Analytic and Judgement Skills:
have daily tasks to perform and arrange. Work around these to meet any deadlines.

Physical Skills:
intermediate word processing skills

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.

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