Medical Secretary - Maidstone, United Kingdom - Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
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If you are caring, organised and flexible in your outlook, have good literacy, numeracy and excellent keyboard skills with a willingness to learn you could be just the person we are looking forThe Kent Oncology Centre has a vacancy for a Medical Secretary, based at Maidstone Hospital.
You will be part of a dedicated team, committed to delivering a high standard of service to cancer patients. Key responsibility will involve acting as a medical secretary for Consultant Oncologist.
Key tasks include audio typing, managing and maintaining the diary, updating patient records with correspondence and results and using effective communication skills to liaise with patients, their families and medical, nursing and other administrative staff as necessary; full training will be given.
Much work will involve the use of information systems; therefore a familiarity with computers would be an advantage. An understanding of the need for confidentiality is essential.
Key tasks include audio typing, managing and maintaining the diary, updating patient records with correspondence and results and using effective communication skills to liaise with patients, their families and medical, nursing and other administrative staff as necessary.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
We work from two main clinical sites:
Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury.
Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.
We would encourage all employee's working for the NHS that you keep yourself protected against COVID-19. Please follow the link below to find out more information and to book your COVID-19 vaccine todayWe are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated.
We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients.
We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment.
We work hard to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust.We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients.
We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics.
MTW also has active Disability, LGBT+ and Cultural Ethnic Minorities Networks to bring staff together and in act positive changeMore jobs from Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
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