Head Medical Secretary - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Priory Healthcare

Priory Healthcare

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Woodbourne hospital provides a diverse range of inpatient services. These include acute and psychiatric intensive care services for adults. A specialist adult Eating Disorder service and a private addictions service.

Across six wards, our multi-disciplinary teams deliver personalised treatment programmes to our patients and have established an excellent reputation for providing the highest standards of care.

Set in the leafy suburb of Edgbaston, close to Birmingham City centre, Priory Hospital Woodbourne is conveniently located for access to the West Midlands motorway network and with very good local public transport links.

Job involves working as part of a medical secretarial team to provide leadership, management, secretarial and administrative support to the medical secretarial team, consultants and the wider hospital.

Responsible for ensuring the secretarial team provide relevant, effective, efficient and a professional secretarial service
Responsible for ensuring business processes are effectively and resourcefully managed to support the delivery of a quality care service
Manage the medical secretarial team, eg oversee and manage annual leave, planned and unplanned absences, conduct appraisals, one to one meetings, maintain the performance of the office routines and procedures, implementation of procedural changes,
Involved in the recruitment and selection of secretarial staff, dealing with personnel matters and complaints
Manage and deal with the archiving of patient files
Diary management, minutetaking, preparing meeting notes, agenda formulation, distributing minutes and attending the medical advisory committee meetings undertaken by the medical director
Provide any other secretarial support to the medical director
Attend departmental meetings
Any other administration and ad hoc duties