Medical Typist

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust

Medical typist for ENT department

Full time 37.5 hrs

We are looking for an experienced Medical Typist for ENT department to join our small administrative team in this busy, friendly department.

We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic attention to detail person with a mature, responsible and flexible outlook. Previous experience as a medical/ clinical typist using audio is preferred. You will have a caring and courteous manner and enjoy working with and meeting people. You will also be able to work unsupervised and display initiative, whilst being aware of team membership.

You will be responsible for using describe to proof read the clinical letters for ENT clinics and administrative letters and other correspondence.

To arrange a visit or for further information about the post, please contact Dobrinka Jordanova Medical Rota Manager/ Medical Secretary Manager Tel 0208 333 3683 or 07884393923.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

As an organisation, we’ve made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of “Good” in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of “Good” that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust’s improvement journey, as we’ve stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We’ve also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.

To provide clerical support to the Consultant and the Consultant’s team.

KEY RESPONISBILITIES
1. To act as a central point of information and communication for the clinical team.
2. To provide a full secretarial support service to consultants and members of their teams in respect to their general medical duties and specialist work.
3. To act independently ensuring that daily