Medical Secretary

Job overview

We are currently seeking dedicated Medical Secretaries to join our dynamic teams across our Divisions of Medicine and Surgery.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of healthcare, providing essential administrative and secretarial support to consultants, clinicians, and multidisciplinary teams.

Whether you have experience in general medicine, surgical specialties, or both, we welcome your application. We have a number of posts available ranging from full time to part time across a number of departments.

Should additional vacancies arise (full or part time) in the next three months appointable applicants from this advert will be considered therefore please do not hesitate to apply.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for checking, monitoring and progressing all aspects of the patient pathway in line with clinical instruction and in accordance with national and local waiting times, liaising directly with the consultant and delegated members of the consultant team, using information reports to assist

They will have expert knowledge of the various patient pathways which include the 18 weeks Referral to Treatment (RTT) rules and ensure application of this knowledge, promoting best practice amongst peers and offering guidance for clinical teams. They will work closely with other members of the clinical admin teams, Team Leaders and the Data Quality Team to ensure consistent approaches are applied to RTT validation.

They will have skills in all areas of administrative functions to enable them to support the patient pathway, using Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) to ensure that functions of the role are carried out correctly and consistently within given timescales.

Provide a comprehensive range of secretarial duties: clinical correspondence, general letters, all admin duties including phone and post, oversee their Consultants/Clinicians PTL.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully.  Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.

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