Medical Secretary

Location: 60 Whitfield St, W1T 4EU

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.

Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.

Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated individual with proven Medical Secretarial skills to join our well established, friendly Cellular Pathology reporting team.

We require a skilled medical typist with medical terminology knowledge who has proven secretarial experiance.

You will provide strong medical secretarial/administrative support and therefore candidates must be able to work as part of a team as well as independently and have a strong background in diagnostic reporting and administration within the NHS/Private clinical environment. You should also be able to work accurately and methodically and be able to work under pressure whilst maintaining composure.

This role will help you cement and progress your existing experience working within the healthcare sector. Main duties of the job You will provide a high quality, proactive and effective secretarial/administrative service to the consultants and registrars within the diagnostic team under the supervision of the Office Manager. You will be asked to undertake a range of administrative and secretarial duties, such as transcribing of dictation, report typing and telephone queries. This role requires strict attention to detail and the ability to prioritise your workload and use your own initiative under the managers guidance. Your work must be of a high standard and you must have the ability to maintain confidentiality and be familiar with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We are looking for someone who is self-motivated, able to multitask and is keen to learn.

At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

**• No banding restrictions: **As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.

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