Colorectal Faster Diagnosis Medical Secretary - Yeovil, United Kingdom - Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Yeovil, United Kingdom

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The Colorectal Faster Diagnosis Hub provides a fast track referral route for patients seen in primary care with symptoms suspicious of colorectal cancer.

The Hub aims to speed up diagnosis and to improve overall patient experience.

The post holder will be directly involved in the co-ordination of colorectal cancer referrals.

The service is operational Monday to Friday with an office base in Yeovil District Hospital. This role is for 37.5 hrs per week.

A Secondment will also be available for internal applicants.


The post holder is to provide comprehensive administrative & secretarial services including telephone duties, typing (including audio), filing, dealing with and prioritising incoming and outgoing mail.


You will be contacting patients, arranging and following up appointments, chasing blood results with GP's, ordering of goods, completing patient template letters, posting FIT tests to patients and general assistance in the co-ordination of the team office.

The role is carrying out these duties for the Colorectal Faster Diagnosis Nurses and the Somerset Colorectal Hub Navigators.


Yeovil Hospital is an ambitious and friendly Trust that is extremely proud to provide acute care for a population of more than 225,000 people in South Somerset, North and West Dorset and parts of Mendip.

The hospital has 345 beds, a busy Emergency Department, a variety of outpatient and diagnostics services, and a private patients' wing which offers a personal service in state-of-the-art clinical facilities, with all profits being invested back into NHS healthcare.


Yeovil Hospital's iCARE model, which has established the principles of exemplary patient care, patient and employee experience, has attracted national interest and is embedded in everything we do, following our vision to care for our patients as if they are one of our family.

The Trust's shared vision has led to our staff rating Yeovil Hospital the best in England for employee health and wellbeing for the third year running in the annual NHS staff survey 2020.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.


Please Note:

Our Trust is undergoing a merger to enable Yeovil Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to become one combined organisation in April 2023.

If you are successful in securing employment with the Trust we wanted to make you aware of this proposed merger.

If this merger is confirmed, your employment will continue as part of the newly formed Trust.
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