Support Secretary

6 days ago


Ipswich, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Support Secretary within the Vascular Unit at Ipswich Hospital. This post is part time, 23 hours per week. The hours are between 9:00 - 15:00 but are flexible with school hours available.

In this role you will provide efficient and pro-active secretarial/admin support to the consultants and other team members.

You will join our friendly and dedicated team of specialist surgeons, radiologists, doctors, vascular technicians and nurses who provide multidisciplinary care for our patients living across Suffolk and Essex.

In this department you will be fully supported by management with regular training and development to help further your career.

Please look at our attachment for further information about our department, including hearing from one of our current members of staff about their journey.

In this role you will carry out medical secretarial administrative duties, adhering to policies and procedures to provide a comprehensive high quality service. You will deal efficiently and courteously with patient and staff enquiries.

For this role you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be able to prioritise and adapt to constant demands on the workload as well as be able to demonstrate the ability to work as a team member.

**Essential skills required for the post include**: good typing and audio skills, the ability to prioritise tasks, effective time management skills, good IT and secretarial skills, supporting with theatre booking, interpersonal and organisation skills.

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 over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. 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.
- To ensure a high standard of secretarial and administrative service is consistently delivered by undertaking required tasks and activities on a daily basis, using the ability to work flexibly and use initiative
- To utilise the required technology/hospital systems including Lorenzo/Evolve/ICE and any other new technology or system(s) that are introduced and support other team members to deliver an efficient administrative service.
- To recommend and support the implementation of service improvements to own and team working practice to improve workflow.
- To train and develop other team members to ensure competencies are developed, sustained and updated and to deliver the required administrative and secretarial service in a changing working environment
- To recommend and support the implementation of service improvements to own and team working practice to improve workflow.
- The post holder will need to have good IT and database skills, minute taking skills and a professional telephone manner.
- You will be working with a wide range of people and communicating with both patients and staff, so effective interpersonal skills are essential.
- You must work well as part of a team, whilst also having the ability to use your own initiative and work well under pressure.

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


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