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Medical Secretarial service to the Consultant Community Paediatrician and the team of junior doctors.  This requires a sound knowledge of medical terminology.  Typing of all correspondence, e.g. clinic letters, medical reports, discharge letters and presentations using Microsoft packages such as Word and PowerPoint, if requested.  Receive telephone calls and act as the point of reference for parents, Health Visitors, School Nurses, General Practitioners, Social Care Services, Police and the Education Department and other service users, liaising with the Consultant and other doctors as necessary.  Receive telephone calls from parents and special schools requesting repeat prescriptions, ensuring the Consultant has relevant up-to-date notes to write up the prescription and follow the identified local procedure.  Type clinic letters for the Consultant and medical team, using digital dictation, forwarding requests for investigations, (e.g. EEG, X-Rays, blood tests), filing results and correspondence.   To provide an efficient and comprehensive secretarial service to consultants and supporting teams.  To work collaboratively with other medical secretarial colleagues to ensure clinical correspondence is produced and distributed within acceptable and agreed timescales.  The post holder will carry out his/her duties in such a way as to make a direct and positive contribution to the organisation of the work. 

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Type clinic letters for the Consultant and medical team, using digital dictation, forwarding requests for investigations, (e.g. EEG, X-Rays, blood tests), filing results and correspondence.   Type and prioritise reports to Social Care Services/Police Statements on children seen for Child Protection Medicals, liaising with solicitors and Guardian ad Litem, as requested. Some letters or reports may be of a sensitive and sometimes upsetting nature due to their content to deal with sensitive and sometimes complex inquiries from Patients, to exercise tact and give suitable non clinical support in the absence of the Doctor.   Deal appropriately with incoming post, drawing urgent letters and laboratory reports to the Consultant’s attention.  Prioritise workload independently, identifying urgency, highlighting problems and taking appropriate action to prevent or solve problems, without supervision.  To support, supervise and be involved in the training of junior administrative staff.  Ensure adequate tracking of medical notes, both in and out of the centre and take the necessary measures to ensure the security of the information contained within these.  Ensure the weekly return of the Medical Team’s activity to the Central Booking Centre. 

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BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

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