Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Medical Secretary for the Haematology department at Wycombe Hospital.
You should be able to work as part of a team as well as being able to use your initiative and prioritise workloads to achieve deadlines. You will need to have good communication skills; essential when liaising with consultants, doctors and nursing teams, patients and other secretarial staff within both the hospital and GP practices. You must also have competent audio typing skills to ensure clinic letters are composed in a timely manner.
We offer a supportive, exciting and challenging work environment. We will support you in development of your skills and any additional training needs in order to fulfil the role more effectively.
There is a requirement that you will need to work all day on Fridays.
Main duties of the job
To provide a comprehensive and quality medical secretarial service to a team of consultants and associated supporting clinical staff, supporting the efficiency of front-line services. To provide support to your team members and have an organised view of clinics to feedback to the team leader.
Co-ordinate referrals and new appointments and liaise sensitively with patients.
Provide first point of contact to the Consultants office, requiring emotional resilience for the sensitive nature of the department and organisational skills needed to co-ordinate visiting consultant workload.
Working for our organisation
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
1. Educated to GCSE standard including English and maths / computer studies or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
2. RSA II typing or equivalent
3. Knowledge of medical terminology is highly desirable (AMSPAR).
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
4. Experience of managing a discrete body of work to ensure timescales are met.
5. Experience of word processing and audio-typing
6. Ability to work with highly confidential data, and to maintain patient confidentiality
Desirable criteria
7. Experience of working within The NHS/GP Practice
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
8. Knowledge of Microsoft Office products
9. Excellent written and telephone communication skills, to enable liaison with staff at all levels
10. Ability to organize and prioritise busy workload
11. Able, and happy, to work as part of a team.
12. Knowledge of Trust Information Systems, e.g. CRS.
13. Ability to travel between Trust hospitals and other Trusts within the Thames Valley Cancer Network to attend Network and MDT meetings and training.
Desirable criteria
14. Knowledge of Data Protection Act, 1998 and other Trust Policies and Procedures
15. Ability to cover the duties of other secretarial staff within the department.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
I f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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