Senior Medical Secretary

NHS; Harrogate; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job description

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a highly motivated, dynamic, and organised Medical Secretary looking for a new opportunity?

The team supports a team of consultants who are based in Harrogate.

As Team Leader, you will provide day to day supervision and coordination of a small team, ensuring high standards are consistently achieved.

As Medical Secretary, you will provide comprehensive, confidential secretarial and administrative support in our extremely busy department. You will be a great team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work under pressure to set deadlines. As such, you must already be an experienced Medical Secretary.

This is a service that is critical to ensuring high quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

• Providing secretarial/administration service to the Consultants and medical teams.
• Leading the team using initiative, experience and leadership skills.
• Accurately co-ordinating medical information to expedite the continuing care of patients.
• Taking responsibility for the successful organisation of the Secretarial/PA workload using time management, planning and organising skills.
• Using initiative and maintaining a high level of confidentiality and diplomacy at all times without immediate access to line supervision.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 5 GCSEs or equivalent including English at Grade C or above
• RSA III Typewriting, word processing or equivalent
• Knowledge of a range of software programmes, understanding of medical terminology
• Association of Medical Secretaries Diploma, or equivalent

Experience

• Recent significant previous hospital, healthcare or NHS experience in a medical secretary role (1 year or more)
• Excellent word-processing, audio and touch typing skills
• Experience working in a team
• Able to/previous experience of leading a team
• Experience of working in a variety of different medical secretary roles

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary: £26,530 to £29,114 per annum pro rata