Support Secretary

4 days ago

Ipswich, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you enthusiastic and well-motivated? Are you looking for a busy and challenging role?

Secondment Opportunity

We are looking for a hardworking team player to join our medical secretary team based at Ipswich Hospital.

We are looking for a flexible person to join us to provide a secretarial service to our consultant team. You will be part of a busy team and must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to exercise diplomacy and a good telephone manner. Proven team working and organisational skills are essential.

You will also liaise with nursing, medical and other secretarial staff in the hospital as well as staff at GP surgeries.
- To support the Consultant teams and administrative teams
- To ensure a high standard of secretarial and administrative service is consistently delivered by undertaking / delegating all required tasks and activities on a daily basis
- To utilise the required technology / hospital systems including Big Hand / PAS / Evolve / Lorenzo and any other new technology or system(s) that are introduced and support other team members to do so to deliver an efficient administrative and secretarial service.
- To recommend and support the implementation of service improvements to own and team working practice to improve workflow.
- To train and develop other team members to ensure competencies are developed, sustained and updated and to deliver the required administrative and secretarial service in a changing working environment
- To support the Operational team with the day to day activities in the department
- To assist with Theatre booking and utilisation

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

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