Medical Secretary - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Band 4 Medical Secretary to join the Cardiology Team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The post holder will play a vital role in providing a comprehensive and efficient secretarial service to the consultants and their medical team in a multi-specialty department.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.
With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham.
We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.As an organisation, we've made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years.
This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of "Good" in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of "Good" that we had already achieved in the Caring domain.
Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust's improvement journey, as we've stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention.
We've also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.
To act as first point of contact on behalf of the consultant and the Trust and deal effectively and courteously with all enquiries from Gp's, parents, patients ,carers, other departments within the Trust and external bodies.
To organise and support meetings on behalf of the Consultant and Managerial team, taking and distributing minutes as required.
To deal with all telephone calls relating to the service, ensuring patient focus is maintained and enquiries are handled in a courteous, tactful and prompt manner and respecting patient confidentiality at all times.
To prioritise and process incoming correspondence and ensure that it is dealt with promptly by the appropriate member of staff.
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