Team Administrator/Medical Secretary

Job overview

We are looking for a motivated individual to join our Medical Secretarial team within the Adult Community Mental Health Services based in Ware.

Our Administrators are pivotal to our work in providing first line contact to people who call us, and in providing a comprehensive, professional and effective administrative support to our team.

You will have the ability to work well within a team environment and be able to manage and prioritise workload, being able to work on their own initiative with minimal supervision.

In return, we offer structured supervision and access to training and development as part of your own personal development and support plan. A friendly and supportive team environment.

Main duties of the job

The job role involves providing comprehensive, professional, and effective secretarial and administrative support to the Adult Community Mental Health Service. You will be responsible for audio typing, booking appointments for clinics and meetings, answering the telephone, taking messages, passing relevant queries to the duty worker, organising rooms, sending out agendas, taking meeting minutes and other general administrative duties.

This is a busy and varied role so good interpersonal skills are required. As some of the work will involve speaking to service users on the telephone, you must display a considerable degree of tact, possess mature judgement and maintain a calm, friendly and efficient manner.

The right person will be able to work with a degree of autonomy and apply a high degree of confidentiality to all of their work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be highly skilled and experienced in the full range of secretarial  work practices, software programmes, and specialised functional  terms.

To be proficient in the use of dictation software.

Processing clinic letters, produce appointment letters and enter appointments in the electronic patient record (currently PARIS) and paper diary.

To be proficient in using the electronic patient record for administrative purposes.

To use knowledge, and experience to assist other members of the admin team when requested to undertake additional admin tasks such as scanning, photocopying, answering the telephone etc.

To update skills as necessary and attend mandatory training

To work unsupervised, on a daily basis, prioritising own workload, using initiative as to what is routine and what is urgent.

To use agreed guidelines/procedures and developed knowledge/skills/qualifications when working autonomously and managing own work.

For a more comprehensive Job and Person Specification please read attached before applying