Senior Medical Secretary

2 weeks ago


Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Senior Medical Secretary to join our team in Child Health at Ipswich Hospital


We are looking for an efficient, conscientious, well-motivated, enthusiastic and experienced Medical secretary, with the skills to provide dedicated clerical support to both the clinical and operational team.


This post will be based at Ipswich Hospital, and you will be part of hard working, well-established, high achieving and committed team.


You will be responsible for working independently, providing a full range of secretarial and administrative support and therefore must be highly organised and show the ability to prioritise a busy workload.

This will include planning for and managing the secretarial team.

You will be expected to provide consistent higher level, comprehensive and efficient secretarial and administrative support.


You will utilise and incorporate the required technology/hospital systems including Big Hand/PAS/Evolve/Lorenzo and any other new technology or system(s) that are introduced including demand/capacity tools.


You will be expected to provide a lead role in the smooth organisation of the department and an advanced secretarial/administration service to the medical teams.

Using your own initiative, managing, prioritising, planning and organising your own time using extensive knowledge, skills and experience.


You will b responsible for managing the processes to aid the continuance of the service in the absence of the clinicians or any member of the team maintaining the highest standard.


You will provide leadership and support to the secretarial team and to be a 'Team Player' working in a way that encourages high performance from other staff, with the aim of maintaining optimum efficiency within the department.

To support other team members to deliver an efficient administrative and secretarial service


One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area.

We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.


Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.


To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.


If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
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