The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
If you are a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual, then we want you! This role is crucial to providing and maintaining an efficient and effective service for our consultants, patients and their families. This is a secondment to cover maternity leave in the department of paediatric neurology within the Family Health Board. The paediatric neurology department is a dynamic team providing care for children with a variety of health care needs.
The successful applicant will provide a comprehensive secretarial service to the Medical Staff, Nursing Team and other members of the paediatric neurology team with tasks including (but not limited to) diary management, processing and minute taking. You will be responsible for the supervision of the administration team, processing annual leave, sick leave, etc., as well as carrying out appraisals and supporting with recruitment and selection of new staff. You will be required to ensure that typing targets are achieved and appointments are checked out promptly with the appropriate outcome.
This is an ideal role to further develop and learn new leadership skills.
You should have proven experience in administration, with team leadership experience preferred, and be proficient in the use of Erecords and NHS systems.
Main duties of the job
Fixed Term / Secondment until 03 August 2025
* Interview Date: 31 January 2025
If successful, you will be responsible for liaising with clinical and non-clinical professional staff for the delivery of a high standard of care. Your role will directly impact patient experience and be part of providing seamless delivery of care.
* Organising meetings with stakeholders and preparing agenda items minute taking for departmental meetings and stakeholders
* Diary management for Consultant Teams
* Updating spreadsheets/data collection and supporting departmental audit activity
* Archiving notes
* Typing of consultant's letters and reports, filing, processing of daily documentation
* Dealing with enquiries from patients, relatives and staff
* Supervising staff and processing annual leave, sickness leave, etc.
* Carrying out appraisals with the admin team
* Attending team leads' meetings every month
* Ensure typing targets are met
* Ensure the paediatric neurology department is well-staffed and identify any gaps in the rota
* Regular 1:1s with admin member team
About us
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
* Freeman Hospital
* Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
* Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
* Newcastle Dental Hospital
* Newcastle Fertility Centre
* Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
* Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals.
Job responsibilities
You should be self-motivated, reliable and well-organised with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Be able to demonstrate secretarial experience with appropriate qualifications, be able to work efficiently and methodically with good attention to detail without direct supervision. The post holder should be flexible to the needs of the service with a positive and proactive attitude.
The post holder will be required to have excellent communication skills, be able to prioritise workloads effectively with excellent attention to detail.
* Responsible for the organisation of secretarial support to Consultants, Junior Medical Staff and other clinical staff within the Consultants team i.e. Specialist Nurses.
* Responsible for the day-to-day management of the administrative/secretarial team, including supervision of the administrative staff, delegation of tasks and co-ordination of annual leave and undertake appraisals of junior staff.
* Contribute to a comprehensive efficient and effective administrative and clerical service.
* Contribute to a consistently high standard of patient care as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Cover Senior Medical Secretary posts Trust wide as required.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Knowledge & Experience
* Experience of Healthcare (patient-related) secretarial procedures including NHS systems
* Experience as Medical Secretary
* Extensive knowledge of Medical Terminology
* Audio typing experience
* Proven experience in staff management
Skills & Abilities
* Advanced keyboard skills including a very high standard of word processing skills (e.g. OCR / RSA III or equivalent level qualification / experience)
* IT skills to include office software packages
* Ability to work unsupervised
* Ability to manage time effectively and work on own initiative
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.
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