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Support Secretary - Colorectal
NHS
England
On-site
GBP 40,000 - 60,000
Full time
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity awaits an experienced Support Secretary to join a dedicated Colorectal Team. In this role, you will provide essential administrative support, ensuring smooth operations within the department. Your responsibilities will include audio typing, managing referrals, and maintaining patient investigation systems. The ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills and a good understanding of medical terminology. This position offers a chance to grow within a supportive environment, contributing to the efficiency of healthcare services. If you are reliable, flexible, and a team player, this role is perfect for you.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Experience in secretarial roles with a good understanding of medical terminology.
- IT literate with knowledge of hospital computer systems and office practices.
Responsibilities
- Provide administrative support to Consultants and Clinical teams.
- Typing documents, processing referrals, and managing postal services.
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Education
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Job description
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Support Secretary to join our Colorectal Team at UHD. You will provide support to our Consultants and Clinical teams through administrative tasks such as audio typing, Choose and Book referrals, organising post and filing - to ensure the department runs smoothly.
The post holder must be IT literate and ideally familiar with hospital computer systems including eCamis and EPR. Knowledge of Microsoft Teams would also be beneficial.
The ideal candidate must have a good knowledge of office practices and medical terminology alongside excellent interpersonal skills and be reliable and flexible with the ability to work under pressure and above all be a team player.
We offer training and development opportunities within an established Colorectal secretarial team which sits within the Surgical Secretariat.
Base Location: Poole Hospital
Interview Date: 14 April 2025
- Typing audio and digital documents to include operation and clinic letters
- Maintaining investigation systems for patient results (TEAMS)
- Processing of Choose & Book referrals
- Delivery of investigation requests to other departments within the hospital
- Postal service administration for outgoing patient letters
- To cover consultant's PA desks in their absences
- Minimum of 5 GCSEs including English or equivalent
- RSA II or equivalent, touch typing/computer skills
- Secretarial experience
- UHD experience
- Experience of hospital systems ie. Ecamis, EPR, Teams
- Understanding of secretarial procedures
- Ability to organise own workload with priorities set by Consultant Secretary / Colorectal Team Leader
- Flexibility with working pattern
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.
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
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