Medical Secretary

Slough Mental Health Serviceshas an exciting opportunity for a Medical Secretary to join our dynamic and multi-disciplinary team.

The postholder is expected to act on their own initiative on a daily basis to ensure the effective running of the service, prioritising their own workload as required. To provide excellent secretarial, administrative and clerical support to the Consultant Psychiatrists and their Team.

The post holder must be able to effectively and professionally liaise with, and negotiate between, all colleagues, service users and their families, members of staff from other external organisations and the public, demonstrating excellent communication skills and dealing with confidential information in an appropriate manner.

Slough is the second largest town in Berkshire and is within the Greater London Urban Area. The A4, M4, M40 and M25 are all easily accessible making travel to and from very straightforward. Links to the centre of London are excellent with four trains an hour to Paddington, fast trains taking only 18 mins.

To provide excellent secretarial, administrative and clerical support to the Consultant Psychiatrists and their Team.

The post will require excellent communication skills, as they will be required to liaise with staff across East Berkshire, outside agencies, and patient with their families in person and on the telephone.

Duties of this post will include the production of many reports/rota’s/letters etc.

The post holder will, on occasions, be required to work autonomously to ensure a high quality service.

The post holder will be required to cover a range of work procedures, which may require formal training and experience.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

The trust employs almost 5,000 people over more than 100 sites and community settings across Windsor & Maidenhead, Slough, Bracknell Forest, Wokingham, Reading and West Berkshire.

As an inclusive employer, we value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall 100 Top Employer. Whatever your background or individual needs, at Berkshire Healthcare you’ll be supported by friendly and professional managers to succeed.

**These are the values that we live by at Berkshire Healthcare**:

- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

**Benefits of working for us include**:

- Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell leave
- Generous NHS pension scheme - 20.68% employer contribution
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- Advanced IT enablement
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants via the Blue Light Card
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and more to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave and access to our three staff nurseries

**The “must haves” for this role**:
1. To build and maintain good relationships with clinical and non-clinical staff, in order to ensure effective running of the Services.
2. To attend delegated meetings and take minutes as required by the Consultant Psychiatrists.
3. Accurate typing of correspondence/medical reports/rotas etc. from dictation, audio or copy methods.

If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and let’s be outstanding together.