Medical Secretary

2 weeks ago

Canterbury, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time

If you are caring, organised and flexible in your outlook, have good literacy, numeracy and excellent keyboard skills with a willingness to learn you could be just the person we are looking for

The Kent Oncology Centre has a vacancy for a Medical Secretary, based at Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

You will be part of a dedicated team, committed to delivering a high standard of service to cancer patients. Key responsibility will involve acting as a medical secretary for Consultant Oncologist. Key tasks include audio typing, managing and maintaining the diary, updating patient records with correspondence and results and using effective communication skills to liaise with patients, their families and medical, nursing and other administrative staff as necessary; full training will be given. Much work will involve the use of information systems; therefore a familiarity with computers would be an advantage. An understanding of the need for confidentiality is essential.

Key tasks include audio typing, managing and maintaining the diary, updating patient records with correspondence and results and using effective communication skills to liaise with patients, their families and medical, nursing and other administrative staff as necessary.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.

We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work hard to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics. MTW also has active Disability, LGBT+ and Cultural Ethnic Minorities Networks to bring staff together and in act positive change

**Interview Date**: To be confirmed

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