Medical Secretary

7 months ago


Bath, United Kingdom Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for a passionate and driven individual able to thrive in a busy and fast-paced environment within a team of six Medical Secretaries. We are recruiting for 30 hours a week.
Your main responsibility will be typing clinical correspondence to both patients and medical professionals, supporting our fantastic Gastroenterology clinicians to provide the best possible outcomes for our patients. You will be the first point of contact for patients, and be able to use initiative to deal with any queries from either patients or the clinical teams - so a calm and empathetic approach is essential for this position.
In addition you will learn about the pathways for both routine elective patients and cancer patients and understand where patients are in their journey.
You will be required to organise follow-up appointments, and track diagnostic results and will liaise with the consultants to ensure that they are aware of results, minimising delays to patients.
Gastroenterology is a busy department where there is always something new to learn. We can promise you will never be bored

There are 2 posts of 30 HPW, some of which can be worked remotely.
1. To provide a complete medical secretarial service, including accurate audio typing o the department, producing clinic letters and other documents
2. To liaise with nurses, doctors and other members of the multidisciplinary team, including inpatient and outpatient booking teams to provide a quality service for the patients
3. To work as part of a team sharing responsibility for the smooth running of the department
4. To provide a first point of contact, answering all telephone enquiries, taking and relaying messages in a polite and helpful manner and using own judgement to establish the priority of issues and taking action as appropriate.
5. To check patients have been listed on patient databases and assist booking clerks as require
6. To effectively arrange and book follow-up appointments, and monitor the ‘To be Scheduled’ List.

At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more aboutliving and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about ourextensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future withthe landmark Dyson Cancer Centreand ourpassion for research.

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