Medical Secretary/Pathway Co-ordinator

Job overview

To provide a comprehensive secretarial service to Consultant(s) and Departmental Team, within the general procedures laid down for the department.  The confidential nature of all work concerning patients must be understood and safeguarded.  The medical secretary is part of a team and must regard the interests of the patient as paramount and as such must be aware of the Data Protection Act (1998) and be aware of the consequences of the failure to comply with it.

Main duties of the job

• To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team servicing the Warrington, Halton, St Helens and Knowsley NHS Breast Screening Programme, with the aim of providing and maintaining a high standard of service to patients.
• To be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the Patient Clinical Database on the NHSBSP Computer Programme.
• To provide a secretarial service to the Programme Director, Consultant Radiologists, Radiographic team, and Programme Manager regarding queries and reports from the NHSBSP.
• To advise and support the Consultant Surgeons, junior medical staff, and Breast Care Nurses servicing the symptomatic breast service.
• To cover secretarial duties across both sites depending on staffing.
• Post-holders are expected to be flexible in their approach to the needs of the service.
• To work with the minimum of supervision in an organised, efficient and effective manner in order to maximise the use of own time and that of other departmental staff.
• To be part of a small, busy administrative support team providing essential cover where applicable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This job description outlines the current main responsibilities of the post. However, the duties of the post may change and develop over time and this job description may, therefore, be amended in consultation with the post holder.