We are looking to recruit a Medical Secretary for the Haematology department at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
You should be able to work as part of a team as well as being able to use your initiative and prioritise workloads to achieve deadlines. You will need to have good communication skills; essential when liaising with consultants, doctors and nursing teams, patients and other secretarial staff within both the hospital and GP practices. You must also have competent audio typing skills to ensure clinic letters are composed in a timely manner.
We offer a supportive, exciting and challenging work environment. We will support you in development of your skills and any additional training needs in order to fulfil the role more effectively
To provide a comprehensive and quality medical secretarial service to a team of consultants and associated supporting clinical staff, supporting the efficiency of front-line services. To provide support to your team members and have an organised view of clinics to feedback to the team leader.
Co-ordinate referrals and new appointments and liaise sensitively with patients.
Provide first point of contact to the Consultants office, requiring emotional resilience for the sensitive nature of the department and organisational skills needed to co-ordinate visiting consultant workload
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact Pam.Daley@nhs.net (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are internal there is the option for secondment. All applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.