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Job overview

Are you an experienced Medical Secretary? Are you looking for a challenge in a Medical Secretarial role?  Then come and join us at the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital. We have an exciting opportunity of a Medical Secretary role in the BSC department based at Birmingham Children’s Hospital on a fixed term basis with the possibility of a permanent contract.

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who relishes a challenge and is keen to demonstrate their skills and abilities in using their own initiative.

This role is very demanding and applicants need to be self-motivated and possess an RSA/OCR level II qualification (or equivalent).  Desirably you will have an AMSPAR Diploma, or medical secretarial experience. You must enjoy working within multi-disciplinary teams and have the ability to relate to children, parents and members of the public, complemented by excellent organisational and communication skillsYour key role will be managing multiple consultants and their workload. You will need waiting list management experience. You will work closely with the medical secretaries within the team. This role is essential to the department and you will need to be self-motivated and highly organised and enthusiastic.  This role can be demanding and flexibility and dedication is a necessity. You must enjoy working within a multi-disciplinary team and have the ability to prioritise your work load by having excellent communication skills.

Main duties of the job

 A Medical Secretary is an essential and very important role. This person will manage waiting lists for their own consultants inpatient and outpatient waiting lists  and inpatient waiting lists for consultants across BSC, set up and book patients into clinics,  book daycase and inpatient episodes, organise their dairy, minute take for meetings when needed, type clinic letters and answer patient phone calls. This role assists the consultants in providing an excellent pathway taking the patient from the initial referral through their treatment pathway. This post will also help cover when other secretaries within the team are on annual leave.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.