To provide a specialised, comprehensive and confidential patient centred clinical administration and secretarial service to the Surgical Services team in accordance with Departmental, Trust and National standards, policies and procedures. To act as a source of advice and guidance regarding the specialism for patients. To ensure, wherever possible, that all clinical documentation is up-to-date, in an orderly fashion and available whenever clinical decisions are being made, reporting exceptional circumstances where necessary. This will require: effective collaboration with all relevant personnel to maintain an efficient administrative system; prompt transcription, manipulation and distribution of appropriate documentation. To ensure the effective organisation of all patients under the care of the consultant and his/her team in accordance with Local and National policy and targets. This will require effective collaboration with: the Booking Centre and Patient Access team to ensure the waiting list is up-to- date and accurate at all times; Outpatient Access team and General Managers to monitor the utilisation and effectiveness of outpatient clinics, ensuring that established Patient Access Policy and procedures are adhered to; Theatre, Diagnostic and Ward teams to ensure that the elective care pathway for all patients is seamless and sensitive to their needs. Role Requirements Efficient management of consultant’s office: This includes managing schedules and leave arrangements, ensuring appropriate and timely communications with all relevant personnel, arranging meetings/events, composing and transcribing minutes, and maintaining efficient manual and electronic correspondence and documentation management systems. Support to team members: This involves demonstrating and explaining Departmental practices and procedures, undertaking appropriate training and development with new and existing staff, providing cross-cover in the absence of colleagues, and providing day to day supervision where required. Provide oversight to the Support Secretaries for associated administrative activities, such as patient bookings, appropriate documentation and typing, with local training. For further details of the role please see the attached job description.