Clinical Secretary

3 weeks ago


Eastbourne, United Kingdom East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, organised and motivated individual to join our busy Neurology Department as a Clinical Secretary.

The role involves working closely within our secretarial team to provide an efficient administrative service to our Neurology clinicians and their teams. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, flexibility, reliability, must have an organised approach to work and attention to detail are all essential to help support patient flow through the service. Though the job can be challenging at times it is also rewarding.

The role has lots of variety and ad-hoc demands and the post holders must possess excellent time management and planning skills. The position provides the opportunity to work within a very supportive and welcoming team and to further develop existing knowledge and skills. You do not need previous clinical secretarial experience as full training will be given.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will need to deal with patients, clinicians and other staff members, ensuring high levels of customer service and attention to detail. You will have regular interaction with the secretarial management team and the departmental service manager. It is essential that you are able to demonstrate good interpersonal, verbal and written skills and have a "can do" attitude.

You will have a good level of IT literacy as you will be using multiple software packages.

This role will keep you both challenged and busy.

Potential applicants should ensure they evidence the skills listed above in their application.

About us

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to nurseries at EDGH and Conquest, staff restaurants and on-site staff accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available to staff 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Onsite parking is available from only £30 a year.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached.

If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Evidence of good general education to GCSE Grade C or above, including Maths and English NVQ3 Business & Administration or equivalent IT training on office software packages Proficient in using patient record systems

Desirable

NVQ4 in administration or equivalent ECDL

Experience

Essential

Good level of recent secretarial experience in a busy office environment Experience of maintaining records

Desirable

NHS Experience Previous experience working in a medical secretarial capacity

Skills

Essential

Excellent typing, word processing, audio typing, data entry skills Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Good organisational and interpersonal skills

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