The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Due to recent internal promotion, a full-time permanent band 3 Medical Secretary post has become available in our office team within the cellular pathology department.
The post involves working with our admin, clerical, and support team to ensure that complex diagnostic reports are actioned to support our clinical and cancer teams. This supports our trust values of patient at heart, creative collaboration, and everyday excellence.
Main duties of the job
The post involves on-site activity in order to support our team of Consultant Pathologists and lab staff with the progression of diagnostic specimens from sampling to the release of a diagnostic report. This involves but is not limited to:
1. Liaising with clinical teams and GPs
2. Managing and auditing referral requests from both internal and external sources
3. Liaising with lab and Consultants to ensure referrals are actioned appropriately
4. Providing cancer books for cancer teams to support MDTs
5. Supporting MDT preparation by means of coordinating lists and gathering slides
6. Addition and checking of data for Cancer registry each month
7. Supporting any queries within our cancer PTL
8. Requesting cases manually, checking patient details on SPINE and Alex Health
9. Addition of lab details to reports in preparation for case reporting by Consultant Pathologists
10. Supporting with report audio typing as required using complex medical terminology
11. Use of spreadsheets for tracking and audit of cases
12. Supporting accreditation (UKAS) and license activities (HTA)
13. Maintenance and knowledge of SOP's
14. Booking of specimens onto ICE
About us
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient, and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford, and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt, and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills, and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.
Person Specification
Understanding of medical terminology
* Awareness of complex medical terminology
* Experience in use of complex medical terminology
Ability to type quickly and accurately
* Experience of typing
* Previous audio typing/admin level of typing
Working within a team
* Ability to work within a team
* Ability to work to own goals
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
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
£24,071 to £25,674 a year plus 5% high cost area supplement
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