Medical Secretary

**Job Title: Medical Secretary - 37.5 hrs per week**

**Trust Location: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust**

**Location: Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Mandeville Road, Aylesbury, HP21 8AL / Work from home**

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, then Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is the place for you.

**About the Trust**

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust provides acute, community and specialist healthcare services to patients across the county of Buckinghamshire, and neighbouring areas. We have over 6,000 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff caring for more than half a million patients every year. Our patients are at the heart of everything that we do, and our aim is to provide safe and compassionate care, every time. Our focus is on providing right care, right place, right time, first time and everything we do is aimed at delivering high-quality care when and where our patients need it.

**What you’ll be responsible for**:

- To undertake accurate audio/copy typing (digital) of medical correspondence and general administration for the Consultants and their teams. This will include highly sensitive and complex medical terminology with a need for confidentiality.
- To work to the agreed standards and templates for each specialty/department.
- In conjunction with the Senior Medical Secretary, ensure that the departmental transcription workload is prioritised and maintained within time standard.
- Provide a full and comprehensive Service, including timely audio typing of clinic letters, letters, documents/presentations, taking and typing of minutes, agendas, and compilation of letters as required by the Consultant(s) and respective Team(s). This may involve correction of incorrect grammar and interpretation of different pronunciations and handwritten clinical notes of advanced medical terminology.
- To post signed letters and provide a support to the Medical Secretaries.

**You’ll learn the following whilst working at the trust**:

- An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS
- Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times
- A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation

**You’ll have the following skills/experience**:

- Excellent telephone manner
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Excellent IT skills
- Previous Audio typing skills/Med Sec experience
- Understand medical terminology
- Microsoft office
- word, outlook and excel

**_Depending on the Trust, you may require variable additional certification and skills._**

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

- Competitive pay rates
- work this week, get paid next week
- **Essential support when you need it
- 24/7 365 days**:

- call us anytime
- **Multi locational**:

- work across neighbouring Trusts
- **Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go**:

- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
- **Varied working options to suit your lifestyle**:

- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
- **Training and development opportunities**:

- Keep up with the essentials and more
- **Build holiday allowance for every shift you work**:

- your work life balance is important to us
- **Stakeholder pension scheme available**:

- a flexible future for you and yours

**Who are NHS Professionals?**

As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

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**Job Types**: Temporary contract, Part-time
Part-time hours: 30 per week

**Salary**: £11.14 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Medical Receptionist: 1 year (preferred)
- Audio typing: 1 year (preferred)

Reference ID: 54978