Wehave an exciting opportunity to join our Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis teambased at Leeds General Infirmary. This is a Senior Medical Secretary role,working in a complex, very busy department, alongside a team of PaediatricConsultants, nurse specialist team, and a small admin team. The post holderwould be responsible for supervising the existing admin team daily, whilstco-ordinating and managing a busy outpatient setting.
Expected ShortlistingDate:
15/11/2024
Planned InterviewDate:
21/11/2024
Main duties of the job
Themain duty of this role is to provide a comprehensive secretarial service to ateam of Paediatric Consultants within our regional Cystic Fibrosis team.Whilst this role is based within Leeds General Infirmary, we are a regionalcentre covering Leeds, York, Scarborough, Bradford & Hull. This roleinvolves a wide range of admin and secretarial duties which includeoutpatient clinic management, typing of clinical correspondence, dealing withpatient phone calls, and passing on messages to relevant teams, attending anddocumenting MDT meetings, data submission and other admin related tasks.Supporting our clinical nurse specialist team is also a very important partof this role, we well as the day-to-day supervision of the admin team,escalating any issues to the PSC or Business Manger.
Someof the secretarial tasks within this role, may involve conversations of asensitive nature.
About us
LeedsChildrens Hospital covers 27 medical and surgical specialties and is one ofthe largest specialist children's hospitals in the country. We have over 20inpatient wards, employ over 800 nurses and last year held over 170,000outpatient appointments and treated over 25,000 surgical patients bothelectively/non-electively.
LeedsTeaching Hospitals is currently embarking on one of the largest and mosthigh-profile investment, transformation and regeneration programmes in thecity and the wider region. Its Building the Leeds Way Programme aims totransform healthcare for patients in Leeds and the wider region. Theinvestment Programme include the construction of two new hospitals at theLeeds General Infirmary (LGI) site one for adults and the other a brand stateof the art Childrens Hospital for Leeds and the surrounding region.
LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.
Job responsibilities
ThePaediatric Cystic Fibrosis team are based within their own outpatient settingwithin Leeds Children's Hospital and have many patients attending each week.This is therefore a very busy department covering paediatric respiratoryclinics also. The team are a very friendly team consisting of Consultants,Nurses, Physiotherapists, Dietitians, social workers, youth workers andsecretaries. This is a great place to work providing patients with a fun andfriendly atmosphere when they attend their clinic appointments, or presentacutely.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated at GCSE Level
Experience
* Previous secretarial experience
* Previous experience of working within an NHS setting
* Experience of typing and medical terminology
* Confident in working with medical staff across all levels
* Confident in dealing with sensitive issues
* Knowledge of NHS targets and pathways
* Supervisory skills & experience
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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