Medical Secretary

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 17,000; Part time

Job summary

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a part-time Band 4 Medical Secretary to join the Community Eating Disorder Service (CEDS) within Specialist Children and Young People’s Service. The role provides secretarial support to the Consultant Psychiatrist and the clinical team, with admin and workflow management across the service.

You will work 22.5 hours per week with peer support and training available in a dynamic NHS environment, contributing to community and hospital in-reach work and

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written skills required.
• Ability to prioritise conflicting workloads and manage time.
• Strong organisational skills and accurate typing experience.
• Proficiency with audio typing and MS Office applications.
• Experience as a medical secretary or equivalent is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive secretarial support to the Consultant Psychiatrist and clinical team.
• Manage day-to-day workflow and admin functions within the service.
• Assist admin colleagues and contribute to service-wide admin tasks.

Skills

Verbal and written skills

Prioritising workloads

Organisational skills

Audio typist

Microsoft Office

Diary management

Minute taking

Team player

Flexibility

Tools

RiO

Microsoft Office

Job description

Community Eating Disorder Service (CEDS), within Specialist Children and Young Peoples Service An opportunity has arisen for a part-time (22.5 hours per week) permanent B4 Medical Secretary join our Community Eating Disorder Team. This service provides community support and hospital in-reach. This service supports young people and their families in the community to manage their condition and prevent hospital admission. They provide family based therapy in a range of settings as well as specialist clinical assessment and in-reach to paediatric and acute mental health settings. This role will be part of the Specialist CYPS Community admin services and as a Band 4 Medical Secretary, you will provide secretarial support to the Consultant Psychiatrist and the clinical team within CEDS as well as providing admin support to other Specialist CYP community services as necessary. Full support will be provided by experienced staff onsite and the candidate will have access to peer support. This is a senior role and the post holder would be required to assist the admin and clinical team with the day-to-day management of the workflow within the service to support and train administrative colleagues as required., The post holder will provide a proactive, comprehensive secretarial service and support to allocated Consultant within the service.

• Excellent verbal and written skills and communicate professionally and effectively at all levels.
• To be confident in prioritising and negotiating conflicting workloads and managing time accordingly.
• Evidence exceptional organisational skills, a flexible approach to work, experience of accurate high-volume transcribing and working from the admin shared inbox
• Proficient audio typist.
• Experience as a medical secretary or equivalent.
• Reliable diary management - Proactive in addressing minor conflicts and problem focused in suggesting potential solutions.
• Proven experience of working with Microsoft Office packages and excellent keyboard skills
• Effective minute taking skills and ensuring all actions are acted upon this may include live typing.
• Ability to be self-directed, motivated and able to contribute positively within a team.
• Strong organisational skills and structure day-to-day tasks.
• Demonstration of flexibility in the role.
• Desirable: A working knowledge of electronic patient record systems (i.e. RiO) - Training will be given.
• Desirable: The successful applicant must be able to meet the mobility requirements of the role

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.