Job summary
Employer heading
Medical Secretary
Band 3
Job overview
Do you have a passion for Palliative Care services and the Hospice environment? This is an exciting opportunity to join the Salisbury Specialist Palliative Care Service as a Medical Secretary. Our administrative team plays an integral part in supporting our clinical teams, the service and its patients.
Main duties of the job
To work closely with the other Medical Secretary to provide a quality secretarial and administrative service to support the effective delivery of patient and family care by Salisbury Palliative Care Services.
To provide a secretarial service to 2 Consultants and the Community / Hospice / FST Team Leader, by effective diary management, preparation of meeting material, minute taking as necessary and typing of documents on request with clinical / discharge letters.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities
Person specification
Achieved Grades/Experience
Essential criteria
- Education: GCSE grade C or above in English / or equivalent qualification.
- NVQ III in administration or equivalent experience.
- Computer skills: Microsoft, Excel and Outlook
- Communication skills: communicate effectively with clinical, nursing, admin staff and external organisations
- Negotiation skills: Flexible with the ability to work as part of a team
- Knoweledge and skills: plan own workload with ability to understand and action conflicting priorities.
- High level of organisational ability
- Ability to prioritise and manage own workload. Working on own initiative
- Able to react to issues that need immediate attention and multi-task
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work alone using initiative to make decisions independently within responsibilities of the role
Desirable criteria
- RSA 1 and II word processing / ECDL or equivalent experience
- NHS experience
- Experience of patient focused service
- Judgement required when receiving calls and dealing sensitively with patients
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Brown
- Job title
- Admin Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01722 425113
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