To provide a comprehensive service to the consultants and speciality teams, with the minimum of
supervision. Organise your own workload and co-ordinate activities with other medical secretaries
to ensure that an efficient service is provided. It is essential that you show initiative commensurate
with the role and it is vital that confidentiality should be maintained at all times. Ensure cross cover
working where possible
1.To provide a comprehensive service to consultants and speciality teams including nurse practitioners/clinicians.
4. To manage and maintain 18 week pathways including tertiary referrals to external trusts,
and ensure these are accurately recorded on PAS system. Keep track of referrals to ensure patient is reviewed promptly. Check that follow up appointments are arranged in conjunction with Referral to Treat (RTT) patient pathway.
5. Organise and maintain consultant’s admissions. Cancel and add patients to the waiting list, as appropriate, ensuring lists are updated, and patients contacted. Liaise with waiting list office, anaesthetic department and ward. Complete and amend theatre lists appropriately.
6. Type dictation from audio transcription of clinical correspondence and documentation. Type discharge summaries as appropriate. Maintain an effective track on inpatient referrals to ensure patient is reviewed promptly.
7. Check against clinical letters to ensure appropriate follow up arrangements/investigations are in place. Rectify if not.
8. Deal with enquiries either on the telephone of face to face from patients, consultants, junior doctors and colleagues in an appropriate manner.9. General office duties, including incoming and outgoing mail, e-mail, fax, photocopying. Participate in housekeeping of office environment.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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To provide a comprehensive secretarial service to consultants and speciality teams including the following:
Transcribing (audio typing) letters on behalf of the clinical team and arranging appropriate follow up arrangements.
Managing the creation, reduction and cancellation of clinic templates on behalf of clinicians.
Liaising with all service users (patients, GPs, other Trusts) via the telephone and email, relaying messages to clinicians and responding to queries in a timely manner.
To manage and maintain 18 week pathways including tertiary referrals to external trusts and ensure these are accurately recorded on PAS system. Keep track of referrals to ensure patient is reviewed promptly. Check that followup appointments are arranged in conjunction with Referral to Treat (RTT) patient pathway.
Other general administration duties relevant to the role as listed in the job description.
This advert closes on Tuesday 12 Nov 2024