An opportunity has arisen to support the Vascular admin Team situated at Royal Bournemouth Hospital. This is a busy surgical department and you will be supporting 11 Consultant Vascular Surgeons who work across the South providing emergency and elective care to patients.
It is an interesting, friendly, fast paced specialism and you will need to be efficient, enthusiastic, a good team player and have an eye for detail and accuracy.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
• To support the consultants and consultant secretaries in providing an efficient secretarial service. This will involve the typing of all clinical correspondence ie clinic letters, reports, operation letters etc, under the supervision of the consultant secretary, using audio/Digital Dictation.
• To be aware of RTT (Referral to Treatment) pathways to adjust patient referral to treatment clock according to the treatment plan, liaising with consultant secretaries and/or validator as necessary
• Look up, sort and file patients’ results as directed by the clinician/consultant secretary in line with Health Records filing policy.
• Photocopying, faxing and general filing to include correspondence, results in hospital notes when required.
• Be responsible for out-going post, meeting afternoon deadline assisting post workers when required.
• To deal with telephone queries in an appropriate manner as instructed by the consultant secretary.
• To ensure all referrals are collected on a daily basis and distributed to the appropriate clinician without delay. This includes Choose and Book referrals and paper referrals received direct from GP or other professional bodies.
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
This advert closes on Thursday 2 Jan 2025
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