Medical Secretary - Urology

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our existing secretarial team at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. This will be working within the Urology Department based at Sandwell Health Campus.

The role will require strong communication skills and a knowledge of Cancer Pathways and RTT is desirable.

Within our Trust, all full time secretaries provide full secretarial support to 2 consultants and their junior doctors, while working together as a team.

Main duties of the job

As the Medical Secretary, you will manage the administrative processes associated with patient pathways and contribute to the overall effectiveness of clinical teams (this including patient experience, patient flow and waiting list management).

You will provide secretarial and administrative support to Consultants and clinical teams to support in the delivery of high quality co-ordinated and integrated care. This will including liaison with patients, carers, GP’s and other service users.

You will book appointments for patients on cancer pathway within National Targets and will be responsible for raising any capacity issues with the Line Manager.

Robust knowledge of IT systems is required as well as an ability to work with multiple systems at the same time. Excellent typing speed and grammar is also desirable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.