Clerk Typist

The Paediatric Surgery Department within the Great North Children’s Hospital are seeking to recruitment a Clerk Typist to support the team.

We provide many types of routine and emergency surgery for children of all ages in the Great North Children’s Hospital at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. Our team see children from across the North of England, from Leeds to Edinburgh, and Whitehaven to Tynemouth.

This is a suitable post for an individual wishing to further develop their clerical skills, with a view to progressing to a medical secretary post.
- Interview Date 24/07/2023
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- Deal with telephone enquiries and electronic mail.
- Booking and cancelling clinic appointments.
- Ensure stationery levels are maintained for the surgery department using the Trust Oracle system.
- Proof reading and editing of clinical letters.
- Scanning clinical correspondence.
- Organising consultants post.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
- represented groups.
- Working within a team of administrative staff supporting the provision of an efficient secretarial support service to Consultants, Junior Medical Staff and other clinical staff within their team, i.e. Specialist Nurses.
- Audio typing of letters and documents.
- Deal with telephone enquires promptly.
- Communicate with patients regarding appointments and admissions at the request of medical staff.
- Cover admin posts Trust wide as required.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.