Medical Secretary/Higher Medical Secretary

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Middlesbrough; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000

Job description

37.5 Hours per week

This role is to work on site, within the core hours of 08.00 – 17.00 (7.5 hours per day).

Department - Pain Management, Neurosciences

Post holders will be appointed at band 3 or band 4 depending upon previous experience as laid out in the Trust's development framework for medical secretaries. The framework provides a clear progression to allow post holders to progress from band 3 to band 4 within the post subject to a formal evaluation in role (this would take 18 months to progress from Band 3 to Band 4).

We are looking for an experienced secretary to join the clinical administration and clerical teams at The James Cook University Hospital. The post is available within the specialty of Pain Management. This offers excellent opportunities for enthusiastic and conscientious people to provide a comprehensive medical secretarial service to consultants, junior medical and specialist nursing staff in an efficient and timely manner, assisting in the organisation of their workload and contributing to the overall success of the service.

You will have previous medical secretarial and administrative experience, preferably in a health care setting. It is essential that you have strong IT skills, a good level of general education, an extensive knowledge of Office and Outlook (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email and internet) along with advanced typing/word processing qualifications/skills.

You will have excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills. It’s important that you are flexible, able to act on your own initiative and work both independently and as part of a team. You must be able to work under pressure to tight deadlines and prioritise workloads as well as being positive and enthusiastic.

This vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Terry Job title: Administrative Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01642 850850 Ext: 54406