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Job summary

Main area
surgical
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent: part time 15 hours
Hours
Part time - 15 hours per week
Job ref
229-SUR-6794536
Employer
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Hereford County Hospital
Town
Hereford
Salary
£24,071 - £25,674 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/12/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Wye Valley NHS Trust logo

Assistant Medical Secretary - Community Paediatrics

Band 3

Job overview

The purpose of this job is to provide secretarial support to the Specialty Team in Community Paediatrics by typing letters and reports, dealing with telephone queries and ensuring appropriate diagnostic investigations are arranged.

Main duties of the job

 To type clinic letters, correspondence, reports from digital dictation for the Consultant, Middle Grade and junior medical staff in adherence with standard turnaround times.
 To manage own work ensuring all clinic letters are typed in chronological order.
 To ensure 3-signed correspondence is checked and dispatched daily.
 Forwarding letters/reports by either: - post, fax, telephone or e-mail as required.
 To ensure any dictated requests are actioned appropriately and to notify the relevant

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent – 5 subjects to include Mathematics and English
  • RSA typewriting/word processing stage II or equivalent.
  • Audio typing skills
Desirable criteria
  • Computing Qualification – ECDL or equivalent

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing to a wide range of people.
  • Ability to provide cover for consultant secretaries
  • Ability to prioritise, organise and manage workload without supervision.
  • Previous experience of dealing with the public.
  • Previous secretarial experience of equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a busy office environment
Desirable criteria
  • Previous NHS/healthcare experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employercorporate covenantNHS Rainbow badge

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kelly Price
Job title
Admin Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01432 262050
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