Support Medical Secretary

16 hours ago


Preston, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Support Medical Secretary - Gastroenterology Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Would you like to work as part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other and create the best patient experience that you can? If the answer is yes, then we would love to hear from you

A fabulous new opportunity for a Support Secretary for Gastroenterology has arisen within the Medicine Division at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

You will be a member of a team of support medical secretaries providing secretarial and administrative support to consultants, junior medical staff and any other staff. You will support the efficient channelling of communication between medical staff, GPs, patients, relatives, members of the public and other disciplines within the Trust.

Main duties of the job

You will demonstrate excellent organisational skills, must be flexible in approach, able to exercise initiative and demonstrate a consistently high standard of professionalism, being aware of the need for confidentiality and integrity.

You will be expected to cover aspects of the medical secretary's team leader role during periods of absence, as required by the service.

Job responsibilities
  • Be the point of contact for all day to day enquiries, referring where necessary to more senior staff.
  • Provide administrative and secretarial support to consultants.
  • You will often be the first point of contact for patients and clinicians and will be expected to work independently using their own initiative with minimal direct supervision.
  • Manage electronic calendars for consultants, organising meetings as and when required.
  • Accurate maintenance of an electronic diary with effective communication of diary commitments.
  • Coordinate meetings at the request of the speciality, occasionally requiring arranging venues and refreshments for off-site meetings.
  • Chase progress on all issues with appropriate manager on behalf of the speciality and when necessary to ensure that deadlines are met.
  • Maintain efficient and effective administrative systems including bring forward, and message taking.
  • Ensuring files and papers are available and up to date providing briefings for the day's activities, highlighting deadlines and potential conflicts of interest.
  • Provide secretarial and administrative support when other members of the team are absent.
  • Use databases and computer packages where appropriate to initiate and maintain records and generate statistics for analytical purposes.
  • Accurately transcribe correspondence and reports by touch typing from audio dictation using knowledge of medical terminology. Daily use of digital dictation.
  • Coordinate and liaise with Junior Medical staff and distribute all appropriate medical staff rotas where necessary.
Person Specification Qualifications & Education
  • Good General Education
  • RSA 3 Typing Qualification
  • AMSPAR
Knowledge & Experience
  • Efficient in the use of Microsoft Word
  • Experience of Excel, Power Point, email and internet
  • Basic knowledge of medical terminology
  • Aware of the concept and application of confidentiality
  • Advanced knowledge of medical terminology
  • Previous medical audio typing experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£24,071 to £25,674 a year Per Annum/Pro Rata

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