Medical Secretary

2 weeks ago


Gloucester, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Permanent position secretarial position in small team of secretaries who pride themselves in a supporting and close working team who aim to provide patients with the best care we can offer.

The post-holder will provide an efficient, confidential and professional secretarial service to the care of the elderly and stroke consultants and their supporting team. This will include administration and secretarial support to enable provision of patient care and specialty services. Good communication with patients, relatives, general practitioners and other hospital staff is essential to ensure a proficient, high-quality service for patients and clinicians. The post-holder will be expected to maintain the high standard of care provided by the team and uphold the values and culture of the team.

**The medical secretary is responsible for**:
Providing a comprehensive secretarial and administrative service to the medical staff and their supporting team.

Providing cover for colleagues in their absence to maintain service levels.
Ensuring excellent communication is provided to patients, relatives, general practitioners and other hospital staff to ensure a proficient, high-quality service for patients and clinicians.

Ensuring all clinics are used to their full capacity and that any vacant slots are fully utilised and acted upon, including informing the Booking Office, to maximise capacity.

Regularly informing the secretarial supervisor about progress and flags up as a matter of urgency any issues, for example, capacity or delays due to internal or external factors, difficult queries from patients, etc.

Carrying out regular review and administrative validation of the clinician’s return outpatient wait list.

Supporting the achievement of Trust performance by ensuring administrative standards are met e.g., typing times, test results passed to clinician and any potential 52-week breaches are escalated to the clinician, secretarial supervisor or AGM/DGM to avoid breach.

Ensuring all clinic cancellations/alterations are dealt with efficiently and in line with the Trust’s 8 week annual/study leave policy.

I am delighted you are interested in a Medicine Division Medical Secretary position here at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We provide acute hospital services from two large district general hospitals, Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Maternity Services are also provided at Stroud Maternity Hospital. We remain the major provider of secondary care services in the area and analysis shows that for Gloucestershire we are the leading acute healthcare provider by a significant margin.

Whilst the organisation and structure within specialities/divisions may vary the specific remit of this role will include:
Typing correspondence to patients, GPs, medical staff and any other required addressee following clinical attendance or other patient contacts using digital dictation or via Dragon voice recognition.

Typing detailed medical reports when necessary.

Highlighting to the clinical team members any results, correspondence or patient queries that need response and taking action e.g. booking investigations, transcription, etc.

Ensuring incoming post and results is sorted, any appropriate action taken and passed to the clinician on a daily basis.

Ensuring that any vacant slots are fully utilised and acted upon, including informing the Booking Office, to maximise capacity.

Origination of procedures in negotiation with the clinical staff and patients as requested by the secretary supervisor. This includes identifying potential dates with the clinical team, negotiation of dates with the patient and any additional co-ordination of staff, equipment, stock, facilities, external support (company representatives) and paperwork.

Carrying out regular review and administrative validation of the clinician’s return outpatient wait list.

Regularly informing the secretarial supervisor about progress and flagging up as a matter of urgency any issues, for example, capacity or delays due to internal or external factors, difficult queries from patients, etc.

Liaising with external organisations for the benefit and progress of patient care, such as Social Services, other hospitals, etc.

Support the development of improvements to working practices and processes and contribute to service reviews and the implementation of new arrangements.

As directed, support the resolution of complaints or concerns from patients/carers by helping to collate information and work with the supervisor to respond or escalate appropriately.

To work as part of an Administrative Support Team working flexibly to ensure that administrative work is shared out equally and performed to excellent, efficient and safe standards.

To cover colleagues during absences/annual/sick leave as directed by the secretary supervisor. You may also be required to undertake job rotation for cross cover as well as for development and trai



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