Medical Secretary

Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit a Medical Secretary for the Perinatal Mental Health Team in Walsall within Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, based at Dorothy Pattison Hospital in Walsall.

We require an enthusiastic and highly motivated Medical Secretary, who can provide an efficient secretarial support service to a Consultant Psychiatrist and their respective team in Perinatal Mental Health.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to work independently and as part of a team, exercising judgement and initiative to prioritise and co-ordinate your own workload. In addition to general medical secretarial duties the post-holder will attend multidisciplinary team meetings when required and follow up meeting actions, ensuring patients’ medical records are kept up-to-date, book appointments, co-ordinate Outpatient and Community Clinics . You will be required to use various computerised systems, e.g. Microsoft Office, Outlook and patient administration systems (eg; RIO) to input referrals and make appointments where required, together with audio transcription via a digital dictation system (Bighand). Please note that full training will be provided on the relevant IT systems.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached job description and person specification.

The successful candidate will need to have excellent communication skills, be extremely organised and have exemplary secretarial/administrative skills.  This role is very busy and demanding, with competing demands and deadlines to meet.  We require an individual who is able to work on their own initiative and also as part of a wider team.

The post holder will be required to have the AMSPAR Diploma together with medical secretarial experience, or extensive medical secretarial experience together with RSA/OCR Level 3 qualification in typewriting / word processing / audio typing or equivalent.  Experience and understanding of patient information systems would be advantageous.  MS Office experience is essential as you may be required to use all packages within the role.