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Job overview

Working Part time: 20 hours per week

PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS BASED AT WARRINGTON AND HALTON HOSPITAL

You will contribute and commit to promoting a positive team-based attitude, striving for the highest standards of service in order to deliver excellent secretarial support to the Smart Vascular Department and Management Team, being accountable to the Assistant Service Manager.

You will be expected to work with minimal supervision, exercising independent judgement and using your own initiative. This position ensures an excellent level of Data Quality is maintained when dealing with confidential information in a sensitive manner.  The role requires you to be aware of patient and staff confidentiality at all times. The list below is to outline the main duties involved; however, this is subject to change and will vary within the given role. We ask all employees to be flexible in their role, to always ensure we are delivering Safe, Kind and Effective care.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a comprehensive secretarial support to Consultants and wider vascular team.
• As directed, arrange routine, urgent and fast track patient admissions/appointments by liaising with the patient, GPs, hospital co-ordinator, wards and other departments as necessary, keeping the team informed and ensuring patient notes and all necessary correspondence is available for the admission/appointment.
• To undertake audio transcription of clinic and miscellaneous digital dictation as required by the Team Leader, ensuring all correspondence is checked by the author and signed off before distribution.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.