Medical Secretary Low Secure/forensic Services

**Medical Secretary Low Secure/Forensic services**:
**Band 3**:
**Main area**
- Medical Secretary
- **Grade**
- Band 3
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-001**Site**
- Centre for Mental Health & Justice / Bowman LSU
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £21,730 - £23,177 per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, adaptable and well-motivated Medical Secretary to provide a competent and efficient secretarial service to the Responsible Clinicians covering Bowman Low Secure unit and to support the Specialist Community Forensic team based at the centre for mental health and Justice.

Bowman currently has three responsible clinicians who a cover a third of the inpatient caseload each of our 12 bedded male Low Secure Unit.

These RC's include a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Approved Clinician Associate Specialist Doctor and Approved Clinician Consultant Forensic Psychologist. Furthermore, the inpatient team is in the process of integrating with the Specialist Community Forensic Team which involve closer working and medical secretary support for the SCFT and community counterpart.

**Main duties of the job**:
You will be supporting a multidisciplinary team and will be involved with answering calls to the service, arranging appointments, audio typing letters, scanning, and uploading documentation onto appropriate systems, photocopying, minute taking, ordering stationery, healthroster, and some general administrative work as required.

This role will be challenging and varied, but ultimately a rewarding role that will provide an opportunity, for the right person, to become a key member of the team. A high degree of flexibility is required to meet the day-to-day challenges of the service whilst respecting the dignity, privacy, and confidentiality of each individual patient.

This role is a full-time position, working 37.5hrs per week Monday - Friday 9am-5pm.

The post holders main base with be at the CFMH&J base at Bodmin Police HQ. The post holder will require police vetting for ID access and clearance to the building. The post holder may also be required to visit the ward or RC office block on the Bodmin hospital site to complete duties.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit