Medical Secretary

Job summary

Job Summary The Congenital Cardiology Department has an exciting vacancy for a medical secretary/scheduler for 30 hours per week. This is a senior secretarial role is within a highly complex. busy environment, and the successful candidate will be expected to work independently as well as part of a team. The individual should be patient focused, professional and flexible in their approach to work. The post-holder will: Provide a wide-ranging secretarial service to a group of Cardiology Consultants (the number of which will be determined by Departmental requirements and the job plan commitments of the clinical team concerned). For the group of consultants responsible for, manage the flow of patients ensuring pre-assessments, procedures and/or appointments are booked within the necessary timescales escalating potential for delays to the PSC/Business Manager to ensure that prompt action is taken at all times in order to support strategic capacity/demand planning for the organisation. Undertake secretarial duties such as typing clinic letters, discharge letters and any other documentation required by the clinician.

Main duties of the job

Why you should join our Team Leeds Children's Hospital covers 27 medical and surgical specialties and is one of the largest specialist children's hospitals in the country. We have over 20 inpatient wards, employ over 800 nurses and last year held over 170,000 outpatient appointments and treated over 25,000 surgical patients both electively/non-electively.

Job responsibilities

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.