Medical Secretary | Berkshire Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust

The Wokingham Community Older Adults Mental HealthServiceis looking foranenthusiastic, caring and highly motivatedMedical Secretaryto join our friendly and innovativeTeam.Your base would be Wokingham Community Hospital where we have access tofree parkingfacilities,staff room and a friendly and welcoming team.
The post holder will work as a member of a wider admin team, primarily providing secretarial support to the consultant psychiatrists as well as a range of administrative tasks.
You will need to have a flexible and proactive approach to office duties to ensure a smooth delivery of service to our patient group, carers and your colleagues. You will have excellent communication skills, and work to ensure effective processes and procedures are maintained across the service.
Experience of working with older people with a mental illness is desirable.
You must be enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated to contribute towards maintaining standards of high-quality care to our patients. In our latest CQC inspection we achieved ‘Outstanding’ and therefore the successful candidate would be expected to work towards helping the service maintain these accolades of high standards
Experience of working with older people with a mental illness is desirable.
Core hours Monday – Friday 9-5 – flexible working with one day at home and 4 days office based.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for you to be considered for this role: 
• NVQ3/RSAIII or equivalent qualification/experience including audio typing
• Previous knowledge or experience of working in an office and /or patient care environment, undertaking administrative duties
• Demonstrate advanced communication skills with patients, carers and colleagues
• Have a proactive approach to working as part of a team with a ‘can do’ attitude
• Be enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated to contribute towards maintaining standards of high-quality care to our patients
We are happy to answer any questions that you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call
Clare Leask (Service manager) on 0118 904 7200 or email: Clare.Leask@berkshire.nhs.uk
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and let’s be outstanding together.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Jan 2024

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