Medical Secretary

1 week ago

Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

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**:
**Northern Care Alliance, Cellular Pathology, is an ambitious, welcoming, patient & people-focused organisation.**

As experts, we are proud to deliver high quality diagnostic & prognostic services, creating opportunities to support, develop and progress our teams, adding value to our local communities.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated secretary to provide competent and effective secretarial support to the Consultant Pathologists and Management Team. Working as part of a friendly secretarial team you will have excellent communication skills and be able to work calmly under pressure using your own initiative, with an ability to prioritise work to meet deadlines.

Applicants must be reliable and have excellent audio typing, inter-personal and organisational skills.

**Main duties of the job**:

- Provide accurate and efficient audio transcription of correspondence and reports for Consultant Pathologists in line with department deadlines.
- Liaise with MDT co-ordinators and Cancer Services Team to meet Patient Pathway targets.
- Answer telephone on behalf of Clinician and handle enquiries.
- Meet and greet external visitors to the department in a professional and polite manner.
- Assist in organising and minuting departmental meetings.

Effective management of the Consultant’s diary and the clinical team with appropriate handling of meetings, rotas, teaching commitments and holidays

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT). Our dedicated team of around 20,000 staff - our NCA Family - provide a range of community and hospital services to over one million people across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Salford, as well as providing more specialist care services to patients across Greater Manchester and beyond.

In September 2018 Radiology, Pathology and Pharmacy services across SRFT and PAT were brought together to create a cohesive diagnostics and pharmacy service, called the NCA Diagnostic and Pharmacy Group (D&P). Since this date we have been transforming and aligning our clinical service to ensure safe consistent and high-quality care across our organisation.

D&P supports the four Care Organisations (Bury, Oldham, Salford, and Rochdale), as well as providing Pathology services to Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust via a joint venture.

The Group has approximately 1,700 staff and runs services from multiple sites across the NCA. D&P staff are a diverse and highly skilled group, responsible for the delivery of diagnostic services alongside clinical teams, as well as ensuring high standards of medicines management safety.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:

- To provide a comprehensive secretarial and administrative service to the Consultant Pathologists, Service Manager and activity related to the Cellular Pathology service including specialist Neuropathology and Dermatopathology. To provide appropriate support to the Pathology Directorate when required
- To take the lead in organising and coordinating information required to support the work of internal and external service users such as Consultant Surgeons, Consultant Physicians, HM Coroners and Police forces ensuring open communication and acting as a co-ordinator to facilitate and convene meetings related to the core business of the service
- Support the medical, laboratory, secretarial and administrative colleagues in meeting departmental objectives.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- English GCSE pass
- RSA typing level 3 or equivalent

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Minimum of 2 years experience in NHS support secretary role

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Audio typing
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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