Clinical Transcriptionist

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
A leading Foundation Trust, confirmed as being the best performing hospital in the North West and the second Trust nationally to receive a top accreditation for patient safety and quality.

Working within Dermatology Services you will provide a comprehensive transcriptionist / secretarial and administrative service to the clinical team. You will be an important part of the team, working in a rewarding environment.

This interesting and varied role requires the ability to work well on your own initiative whilst being committed to teamwork as you will need to work with others to meet the patients’ needs.

**Main duties of the job**:
You must possess good communication skills; have the ability to effectively work as part of a team as well as on your own initiative, proven organisational skills and a strong commitment to personal and professional development. The department is extremely busy; you must possess the ability to manage a variety of tasks and prioritize accordingly.

You must provide a strong commitment to improving patient services and ensuring the department continues to perform well in line with national patient measures. You will be responsible for implementing and managing systems for the office/team workload, ensuring work is completed within strict timescales.

Administratively supporting the medical secretaries, medical team & consultants, you will need excellent Audio-Typing experience, exercise your judgement and initiative based on experience and knowledge of arising problems and taking appropriate action to resolve situations.

**Working for our organisation**:
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- OCR/RSA Text Processing Level 2 or equivalent

**Desirable criteria**:

- NHS / Healthcare experience

**Knowledge, Skills & Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to produce letters, reports etc. using word-processing / audio-transcription
- Experience of using Microsoft Office and other databases
- Ability to prioritise workload on own initiative
- Willingness to learn and develop new skills

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of PAS systems

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