Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced Medical Secretary? Are you looking for a challenge in a Medical Secretarial role? Then come and join us at the Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital. We have an exciting opportunity of a Medical Secretary role in the BSC department based at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who relishes a challenge and is keen to demonstrate their skills and abilities in using their own initiative. This role is very demanding and applicants need to be self-motivated and possess an RSA/OCR level II qualification (or equivalent). Desirably you will have an AMSPAR Diploma, or medical secretarial experience. You must enjoy working within multi-disciplinary teams and have the ability to relate to children, parents and members of the public, complemented by excellent organisational and communication skills.
Main duties of the job
A Medical Secretary is an essential and very important role. This person will manage waiting lists for their own consultants, set up and book patients into clinics, book daycase and inpatient episodes, organise their diary, minute take for meetings when needed, type clinic letters, and answer patient phone calls. This role assists the consultants in providing an excellent pathway taking the patient from the initial referral through their treatment pathway. This post will also help cover when other secretaries within the team are on annual leave.
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children, and families.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
Person Specification
Skills
* Working knowledge of medical terminology
* Good English and Numeracy
* Can work autonomously when necessary
* Time management
* Ability to work under pressure
* Highly motivated
* Flexible - Able to adopt a flexible approach when required by the needs of the service
* Possess enthusiasm for developing the role
* Able to work the hours and duties required by the post
* Experience of Hospital Systems
* Departmental Terminology
Qualifications
* AMSPAR Diploma or equivalent qualifications or minimum of 2 years Medical Secretary experience
* Level 2 RSA/OCR word processing/typing qualification/equivalent experience
* Level 3 word processing/typing qualification
Knowledge
* Medical Secretarial experience
* Audio typing experience
* Good telephone manner
* Experience of working under pressure
* Diary management experience
* Working knowledge of medical terminology
* Accuracy
* Able to work as part of a team
* Able to use own initiative
* Ability to work under pressure and to multi-task
* Able to work to deadlines
* Ability to work without direct supervision
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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