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Form of workJob Title: Medical Secretary
Location: Parkway Centre, parkway centre, Havant, PO9 2BF
Trust Location: Southern Health 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, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust is the place for you.
About the Trust
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust provide community health, specialist mental health and learning disability services for people across the south of England.
They cover Hampshire and one community service on the Isle of Wight.
They are one of the largest providers of these types of service in the UK, employing around 8,000 staff who work from over 150 sites, including community hospitals, health centres, inpatient units, and social care services.
What you'll be responsible for:
- Providing timely and accurate secretarial support to the Consultant Psychiatrists and for dictation, audio or copy typing, ensuring the confidentiality of patient records is maintained according to Data Protection and Caldicott Guardianship guidelines. Including forms, rotas, assessments, GP letters, discharge summaries and reports.
- Receive requests for appointments from various sources and to deal efficiently with these requests. To be prepared to act independently and unsupervised in assessing the priority of information for Consultant action.
- Develop and maintain Consultants' diaries working closely with them to ensure a smooth and effective service.
- Ensure that all appointments are booked, and all administrative tasks are carried out prior to the consultation date, including appointment letters, updating diaries, and making arrangements with any outside support agencies e.g., interpreters.
- Acting as first point of contact for all messages for Consultants and in a professional and polite manner. Assessing urgency of each message and using your initiative as to whether to seek guidance from Consultant or other professional.
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
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Previous secretarial experience
- Previous NHS experience
- NHS System Knowledge- RIO (desirable)
This role may require you to show evidence of vocational level 3 qualification or at least 2 years reception experience.
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.
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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.
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