Medical Secretary
Description✓Job Title: Medical Secretary
✓Trust Location: Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
✓Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, then the Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust would love to hear from you
✓About the Trust
✓Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is one of only three dedicated children’s hospital trusts in the UK and provides integrated healthcare for children and young people, including community and mental health care as well as acute and specialist services
✓We provide a full range of services for residents of Sheffield and South Yorkshire as well as specialised services for patients from across the United Kingdom.
✓What you’ll be responsible for:
✓* Act as a focal point for the clinical team
✓Provide a friendly and professional service, deal with enquiries from a multitude of sources following Trust policies and standard operating procedures
✓Liaise with GP’s, other hospitals, patients, internal medical/non-medical staff and medical/non-medical external staff by a variety of means i.e
✓face to face/phone/e-mail/letter/faxes on a daily basis.
✓* Ensure all duties are undertaken in line with standard operating procedures and to enable the achievement of Trust and service specific key performance indicators.
✓* Frequently receive and respond appropriately to telephone and personal enquiries from patients, relatives, GP’s, other consultants and external bodies, referring enquiries to the consultants/clinical teams where necessary
✓This will require analysis of queries/issues, making judgements about how to deal with them and escalating as appropriate.
✓* Accurately record all paper/computerised patient records, updating and amending information in a timely manner and within standard operating procedures.
✓The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above
✓You’ll learn the following whilst working at the trust:
✓* An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS
✓* Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times
✓* A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation
✓You’ll have the following skills/experience:
✓* Excellent communication skills- both verbal and written.
✓* Microsoft office skills- Outlook, Word, and Excel.
✓* Previous experience of audio typing in a secretarial role.
✓* RSA II / OCR typing or equivalent touch-typing experience.
✓* Knowledge of medical terminology.
✓As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:
✓* Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
✓* Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
✓* Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
✓* Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
✓* Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
✓* Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more
✓* Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us
✓* Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours
✓Who are NHS Professionals?
✓We specialise in putting people in place to care
✓Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.
✓As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership
✓We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.
✓Apply Today
✓By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.
✓Disclaimer
✓Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly
✓We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
✓NHS Professionals manage your data, please see our Privacy Notice on our website Show more →
✓Trust Location: Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
✓Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, then the Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust would love to hear from you
✓About the Trust
✓Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is one of only three dedicated children’s hospital trusts in the UK and provides integrated healthcare for children and young people, including community and mental health care as well as acute and specialist services
✓We provide a full range of services for residents of Sheffield and South Yorkshire as well as specialised services for patients from across the United Kingdom.
✓What you’ll be responsible for:
✓* Act as a focal point for the clinical team
✓Provide a friendly and professional service, deal with enquiries from a multitude of sources following Trust policies and standard operating procedures
✓Liaise with GP’s, other hospitals, patients, internal medical/non-medical staff and medical/non-medical external staff by a variety of means i.e
✓face to face/phone/e-mail/letter/faxes on a daily basis.
✓* Ensure all duties are undertaken in line with standard operating procedures and to enable the achievement of Trust and service specific key performance indicators.
✓* Frequently receive and respond appropriately to telephone and personal enquiries from patients, relatives, GP’s, other consultants and external bodies, referring enquiries to the consultants/clinical teams where necessary
✓This will require analysis of queries/issues, making judgements about how to deal with them and escalating as appropriate.
✓* Accurately record all paper/computerised patient records, updating and amending information in a timely manner and within standard operating procedures.
✓The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above
✓You’ll learn the following whilst working at the trust:
✓* An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS
✓* Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times
✓* A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation
✓You’ll have the following skills/experience:
✓* Excellent communication skills- both verbal and written.
✓* Microsoft office skills- Outlook, Word, and Excel.
✓* Previous experience of audio typing in a secretarial role.
✓* RSA II / OCR typing or equivalent touch-typing experience.
✓* Knowledge of medical terminology.
✓As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:
✓* Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
✓* Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
✓* Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
✓* Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
✓* Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
✓* Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more
✓* Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us
✓* Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours
✓Who are NHS Professionals?
✓We specialise in putting people in place to care
✓Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.
✓As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership
✓We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.
✓Apply Today
✓By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.
✓Disclaimer
✓Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly
✓We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
✓NHS Professionals manage your data, please see our Privacy Notice on our website Show more →