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Job overview

As a Medical Secretary you will lead in the provision of a comprehensive, professional, effective  Medical secretarial  role.

You will work closely with Consultants , doctors and the wider  Multidisciplinary team. 

The Adult Community team is a dynamic, fast paced service.  We are looking for someone who can use their initiative, possess mature judgement, and maintain a calm, friendly and efficient manner when dealing with service users, their relatives, colleagues and visitors.  The role is complex and continually developing in order to meet the ever changing demands and needs of the service. 

Main duties of the job

Lead in the provision of a comprehensive, professional, effective secretarial and administrative service, for the well-being team.

To take a lead within the admin team for Data Quality.

You will be the first point of reference and as such must display a considerable degree of initiative, possess mature judgement and maintain a calm, friendly and efficient manner when dealing with service users, their relatives, colleagues and visitors.

You will be required to work independently using initiative, and applying a high degree of confidentiality to all of their work.  Undertake non-routine duties without direct supervision, working within broad procedural guidelines. 

The post is managed rather than supervised.

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!