Medical Secretary

**Introduction**:
Join Thornford Park Hospital as a Medical Secretary and enjoy a career where you are valued and supported to be the best you can be.

In this role, working 30 hours a week you will provide efficient administrative and secretarial support to the RC and Associate Specialist/CNS of the Medical Team within Thornford Park Hospital. You will provide a high standard of secretarial support both understanding and demonstrating the appropriate need for discretion and confidentiality relating to all patients.

As a Medical Secretary, you will work alongside Registered Clinicians, assisting with confidential paperwork, service user's records and GP letters. You will liaise with external agencies to get up-to-date information on service users and will take to lead in recording their blood test results.

At Elysium, we want the best for you. That’s why you will have continuous access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you means better care. That’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

**Your **responsibilities** will include**:

- Receiving and recording work for typing and reproduction
- Audio and copy typing all letters, memorandums, summaries and reports paying particular attention to accuracy and presentation
- ICR forms set up in preparation for your allocated patients
- ICR ward rounds - live typing into form
- Preparation of ward round dates and upkeep of ward MDT/CPA lists
- Section 17 updating of and liaising with ward staff and Consultant
- CPAs: preparation of documents, typing up and distribution of documents
- HCR20, STARTS, SAPROF, RSVP updating
- Liaison with solicitors, Ministry of Justice and family members
- Liaison between wards when and where necessary
- General office duties to ensure that your wards run smoothly and Doctors know where they need to be at any given time

**To be successful in this role, you'll need**:

- Understand medical terminology
- Shorthand/minute taking
- Experience in audio typing

**What you will get**:

- Annual salary of £17,716 + Benefits
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave - plus your birthday off
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity Package

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check and much more.

**About your next employer**

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.