Medical Secretary

An opportunity has arisen for a full time Medical Secretary to join the Gainsborough Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) on a X12 month fixed term contract. If you work well within a team and are highly motivated to provide excellent care, then we would encourage you to apply.

CMHT’s mission is to provide high quality care and treatment to adults who live in and around Gainsborough who suffer with severe and enduring mental health issues. As a Medical Secretary within the team you will play a pivotal part in ensuring we complete this mission, working alongside practitioners and other members of the team.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for additional information about this role.

To provide efficient and effective medical secretarial support to Consultants and Junior Medical Staff and assist in the organisation of the Consultant’s workload, utilising clinical systems and audio/copying typing as required.

The post holder will be expected to act on their own initiative and provide cross cover/support for other secretaries as necessary to facilitate effective service function.

Receive and deal with patient enquiries whilst maintaining strict confidentiality at all times.

To arrange outpatient appointments where required ensuring all referrals are appropriately actioned within the Trust's Outpatient and Waiting List policies.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

The successful applicant will be required to work collaboratively with other members of the CMHT (including the person with whom this post is shared). They will provide high quality correspondence, respond to enquires from professionals, service users and carers in a polite and efficient manner and ensure the effective running of the out patients clinic.