Employer: Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: SWB NHS Trust - Lyng Centre for Health and Social Care
Town: West Bromwich
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/11/2024 23:59
Medical Secretary - Audiology
NHS AfC: Band 4
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
1. People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
2. Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
3. Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
The Audiology department at SWB provides a comprehensive audiology service to both adults and children in Birmingham and Sandwell. The secretarial team provides a service to our Consultant Paediatricians, ENT Colleagues, Clinical Scientists, and Audiologists leading clinics. The role may include providing secretarial support to managerial staff within Audiology.
The post is part-time, working 18 hours per week over 3 or 4 days.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide a comprehensive secretarial service to the Audiology department across Sandwell and West Birmingham sites, supporting Consultants in ENT and Paediatrics, Clinical Scientists in Audiology, and Audiologists.
2. Produce clinical letters and reports as well as take minutes in meetings.
3. Ensure clinical letters are accurate and sent out in a timely manner, planning the workload appropriately to allow for any annual leave.
4. Maintain medical records by accurately filing results, correspondence, and associated documentation to ensure all relevant documentation is available for the clinicians at the time of consultation with patients.
5. Provide a point of contact for patients with telephone queries on behalf of the ENT/paediatric team, using judgement to establish the validity and priority of the contact and taking advice and appropriate action as necessary.
Person specification
Qualifications
* RSA III Typing/Word Processing or equivalent
* GCSE English or equivalent (Grade A – C)
Experience
* Experience of audio typing
* Experience with use of Microsoft systems
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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