Senior Medical Secretary in Women & Children

Senior Medical Secretary in Women & Children

To provide an effective and efficient Senior Medical Secretary service to named consultants within the Women & Children Directorate. To provide support for the team of Medical Secretaries in order to meet trust targets. To support the associated service by ensuring that all appropriate information is sent out and received in a timely manner and recorded on the appropriate systems.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive and enthusiastic individuals to join the medical secretarial team in the Women and Children Directorate at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.

As a team player you will be responsible for providing a full secretarial service to the Women and Children Directorate. The post holder will be required to use computerised systems such as Patient Centre, Advantis, Big Hand dictation system and Excel spreadsheets.

The successful candidate will have previous secretarial experience and will possess excellent organisation, communication, typing skills andthe ability to work in a team environment.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice

• To provide senior medical secretarial service directly to named consultants.
• To ensure RTT (18 week pathway) status is recorded accurately and is up to date.
• To undertake medical audio/copy typing duties including outpatient letters to General Practitioners and any other official correspondence i.e. reports etc.
• Arranging appointments as required.
• Be responsible for arranging special tests requested by the Consultant or Junior Medical Staff.
• To be responsible for and collation of investigation results.
• Responsible for obtaining relevant investigation results from PACS and Intranet result service.
• To deal with day to day incoming mail, assigning priority and/or taking any necessary action without reference to Consultant staff if necessary and within remit.
• To ensure patient pathways are updated as appropriate.
• To respond to enquiries received from GPs and other Health Personnel, patients and relatives.
• To maintain patient records and track notes electronically in a manner acceptable to the Trust.
• Engage in the use of Evolve and all other electronic patient notes system.
• To observe absolute confidentiality of all information obtained in the course of your work.
• To liaise with Health Records/Appointments staff regarding outpatient clinic numbers, urgent appointments and Consultant/Junior Medical Staff annual leave.
• To actively participate in the introduction of and use of information technology.
• To cover, as practical, other secretarial team members absences.
• To undertake any other duties as may be required as appropriate by the Consultant or line manager in accordance to the needs of the…