Medical Secretary

Full details of the role and responsibilities is included in the job description included. 1. Provide a comprehensive service to consultants and specialty teams including nurse practitioners/clinicians. 2. Manage the RTT patient pathway for patients within own area, ensuring these are recorded accurately on the relevant systems, keeping track of incoming referrals to ensure patient is reviewed promptly in appropriate clinic. 3. Clinical utilisation management, including liaison with Clinic Utilisation clerk, ensuring clinics are fully populated, cancelled as appropriate when consultants are on leave, correct patients are booked in, etc. 4. Management of follow-up OPD wait list (FOWL), highlighting areas of concern to consultant, line manager and others as appropriate. Cancel and add patients to the waitlist, as appropriate, ensuring lists are updated and patients contacted. Booking patient appointments as directed by consultant, using the appropriate systems. 5. Deal with patient queries in a professional and courteous manner, ensuring information is shared with relevant clinical staff as required. 6. Ensure appropriate personnel are informed of consultant leave/study leave and sickness absence in accordance with Trust policy and notification periods; junior doctor leave to be treated in same way. 8. Accurately transcribe clinical dictation using appropriate system ensuring reports are distributed in accordance with consultant instructions. Complete any actions arising from clinical dictation as required.