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Job summary

Main area
Radiology
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Job share
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref
110-AC044-0425
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Glamorgan Hospital
Town
Llantrisant
Salary
£26,928 - £29,551 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/04/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board logo

Personal Secretary, Radiology

Band 4

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000.  We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

The Radiology Service is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and suitably qualified Personal Secretary who will support the running of the department.

The successful applicant will have the opportunity to gain a wide variety of experience working to support Consultants and other professionals within the Radiology Department across our three main hospital sites.   

You will need excellent communication and organisational skills and the ability to work well within a team, handling many demands at a high pace. 

 The successful candiate will be required to show flexibility with their working tasks.

We will be happy to accept applications for full-time, part-time or flexible working. 

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

 

Main duties of the job

To provide efficient and effective secretarial support to Consultant Radiologists and to the department of Radiology.

To work as part of a team and to work for named consultants, providing first point of contact for letters, reports, telephone calls and e-mails.

This post is structured around 4 core functions to include:

  • Typing of Consultants correspondence, documentation, reports.
  • Management of Consultant diaries. Oversee timely appointments for patients by way of liaising with clerical and clinical staff.
  • Work alongside other health professionals and provide an efficient service to all users.
  • Providing RadIS/PACS administration support.

 

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.  Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

  • We listen, learn and improve
  • We treat everyone with respect
  • We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

Person specification

Qualifications/and or Knoweldege

Essential criteria
  • Ability to use RadIS software.
  • RSA/OCR Level 3 qualification or equivalent skills and knowledge.
  • Knowledge of a full range of secretarial procedures.
  • Understanding of patient confidentiality.
  • Knowledge of medical terminology.
Desirable criteria
  • Supervision qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience of working within a hospital/caring environment as a medical secretary.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of supervising staff.

Aptitude and Ability

Essential criteria
  • Good communication skills – ability to liaise competently with stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds.
  • Ability to work on own initiative.
  • Motivated and reliable.
  • Team Worker.
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to speak Welsh.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Age positiveDisability confident leaderStop Smoking Wales is the NHS Smoking Cessation Service in WalesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.hyderus o ran anableddAccredited Living Wage EmployerWelsh logo for Armed Force Bronze Award for Cym Taf UHBAccredited Living Wage EmployerCore principlesPrentisiaethau Apprenticeships

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Welsh language skills are desirable

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alyson Berbillion
Job title
Radiology Admin Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01443 443561
Additional information

Collette Jones, Superintendent Site Lead RGH

[email protected]

 

01443 443443  ext 6460/74403

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