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SalaryJoin The Chimneys as a Mental HealthAct Administrator and Medical Secretary and enjoy a career where you are valued and supported to be the best you can be.
Working 37.5 hours a week, you will be responsible for providing confidential and efficient administrative support to Registered Clinicians and the medical team. From managing their diaries, planning meetings and arranging travel arrangements to drafting correspondence and updating records, you will be able to turn your hand to any admin related task.
As a Medical Secretary, you will work alongside Registered Clinicians, assisting with confidential paperwork, service user's records and GP letters. You will liaise with external agencies to get up-to-date information on service users and will take to lead in recording their blood test results.
At Elysium, we want the best for you. That's why you will have continuous access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you means better care. That's what delivering great healthcare should feel like.
Our Medical Secretary role involves:
- To receive and record typing, checking and amending for spelling and grammatical errors, completing within given deadlines.
- To provide a confidential and efficient secretarial and administrative service to the unit.
- Maintain any records as may, from time to time, be specified to support tasks being carried out, or to allow monitoring of tasks.
- Audio and copy typing all letters, memorandums, summaries and reports paying particular attention to accuracy and presentation
- Maintaining an efficient process of entering correspondence on to the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system
- Organise venues, accommodation and agendas for meetings.
- To actively participate in maintaining the physical, relational; and procedural security to ensure the safety of all.
- To attend meetings relevant to the department, and internal / external training events as and when required.
- Taking minutes at Care Programme Approach meetings
To be successful in this role, you'll need:
- Minimum 3 years' secretarial and administrative experience, ideally gained within a high-profile commercial environment
- OCR/RSA Stage 3 & ECDL or equivalent desirable
- NVQ III Business Administration
- Shorthand 100 wpm
- 2 years' experience specifically in a similar role
- Shorthand/minute taking
- Experience in audio typing
What you will get:
- Annual salary of £27,300 + Benefits
- £1000 Welcome Bonus
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave - plus your birthday off!
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity Package
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check and much more.
About your next employer
You will be working for an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.
