Lead Secretary

**The Role**:
We have an exciting new opportunity for a Lead Secretary to join our Specialist Children's Health Services Unit at Udston Hospital. The postholder will:

- Supervise an administrative team of secretaries and administrative clerks and to provide a comprehensive administrative support to a team of clinicians, enabling clinicians to operate effectively and efficiently. Ensure the work of the administrative team is carried out in accordance with NHS Lanarkshire’s standard operating procedures.
- Provide comprehensive administrative support to a team of clinicians, enabling clinicians to operate effectively and efficiently. Work in accordance with standard operating procedures.

**NHS Lanarkshire**:
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

**What we'll need you to bring**:

- SVQ level 3 qualification (or equivalent experience) plus prior experience as a medical secretary
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of medical terminology
- Evidence of effective team working and dealing with change
- Evidence of good communication skills with patients, clinicians and colleagues.
- Advanced audio typing skills
- Evidence of strong competence with relevant IT systems
- Excellent organisational skills
- Proven ability to work under pressure
- Car driver with valid UK driving licence

**It would be great if you also have**:

- Previous scheduling experience
- Prior NHS experience
- Waiting times experience
- Knowledge of Treatment Time Guarantee (TTG)
- Working knowledge of Trakcare and Microsoft Office packages including Word and Excel
- Previous supervisor experience.

**Contract type**:
Permanent

Full time

37.5 hours

**Location and Working Pattern**:
This role will be based in Specialist Children's Health Services Unit within Udston Hospital.

The working pattern for this role: Monday-Friday

**Looking to find out more?**:
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you

**Why NHS Lanarkshire?**:
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:

- A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
- A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
- Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
- Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
- Occupational health services
- Employee Counselling services
- Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

**Further Information**:
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

**Additional Information for Applicants**:

- Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
- Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this, must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

**NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment Website**

**Care to join us?