Medical Secretary

This post will be full time Monday to Friday.

To provide a full secretarial service to the Medical Consultants and wider clinical Teams.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

To provide general office support to the wider teams where necessary.

To provide secretarial support to consultants and other team members including typing dictated correspondence and dealing with discharge summaries and related referrals to other healthcare professionals, receive communication and bring to attention of the relevant consultant.

To deputise for more senior role providing office co-ordination and management when covering sickness absences and annual leave.