Support Secretary, Colorectal

Job overview

To provide a specialised, comprehensive and confidential patient centred clinical administration and secretarial service to Consultants and their teams in accordance with Departmental, Trust and National standards, policies and procedures. To act as a source of advice and guidance regarding the specialism

Please be advised that sponsorship is not eligible for this post.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Main duties of the job

• Provide an administrative and secretarial service to the clinical team.
• Act as the first point of contact for dealing with enquiries and take appropriate action as necessary liaising with others as appropriate. Be responsible for providing and receiving complex and sensitive information.
• Support with the management of clinics for the Colorectal Consultants and registrars, including the booking, rescheduling and cancelling of appointment
• Support with the Colorectal TWW Service – i.e finding rooms/building clinics.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Managing dictation, ensuring clinical correspondence is quality checked and sent out in a timely manner
• Implementing and maintaining both manual and electronic filing systems and databases as required by the department, ensuring all documents are accurately and appropriately archived.
• Process referrals to the department including generating waiting lists, booking and coordinating of appointment or procedures and coding of activity.
• Ensuring all clinical events are ‘cashed up’ in an appropriate time scale with appropriate outcomes (e.g. discharge or follow up appointments made).
• Undertaking filing, photocopying, and scanning as necessary, ensuring all documents are accurately and appropriately archived.
• Management of post within the department.
• Booking and re-scheduling of clinic appointments where necessary.
• Managing dictation, ensuring clinical correspondence is quality checked and sent out in a timely manner
• Implementing and maintaining both manual and electronic filing systems and databases as required by the department, ensuring all documents are accurately and appropriately archived.
• Process referrals to the department including generating waiting lists, booking and coordinating of appointment or procedures and coding of activity.
• Ensuring all clinical events are ‘cashed up’ in an appropriate time scale with appropriate outcomes (e.g. discharge or follow up appointments made).
• Undertaking filing, photocopying, and scanning as necessary, ensuring all documents are accurately and appropriately archived.
• Management of post within the department.
• Booking and re-scheduling of clinic appointments where necessary.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

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.