Medical Secretary

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the Tees Valley region is seeking an experienced medical secretary for its Cardiology Department. The role demands excellent secretarial, typing, and interpersonal skills, with a strong knowledge of medical terminology. The successful candidate will handle tasks such as typing clinical correspondence, liaising with medical teams and patients, and managing clinic schedules. This position offers the opportunity to be part of a dynamic healthcare team dedicated to providing outstanding patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience as a medical secretary with excellent secretarial, typing, and interpersonal skills.
• Sound knowledge of medical terminology is essential.
• Ability to prioritize workloads and work to deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Typing/proofreading clinical correspondence.
• Liaising with medical teams and patients.
• Booking and cancelling clinics and appointments.
• Updating medical notes and various clinical tracking systems.

Skills

Secretarial skills

Typing skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Tools

Microsoft packages

Hospital data management systems

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for a medical secretary within the Cardiology Department. We are a busy team and are looking for an experienced medical secretary with excellent secretarial, typing and interpersonal skills. The successful applicant will become an integral part of an efficient, flexible and pro‑active team providing an excellent secretarial support service to a clinical and specialist nurse team. The applicant will require excellent organisational and communication skills, be able to work under pressure and to deadlines as part of a team, and be able to prioritise workloads. A sound knowledge of medical terminology is essential. Experience of Microsoft packages including regular use of spreadsheets is essential and knowledge of hospital data management systems would be desirable.

Responsibilities

• Typing/proof reading clinical correspondence
• Liasing with the cardiology and medical teams within the Trust
• Lialising with patients
• Liaising with GP surgeries/tertiary centres
• Minuting departmental meetings
• Using the Trust EPR systems
• Using the Trust digital systems
• Ensuring a robust system is in place to keep track of investigations
• Booking and cancelling clinics
• Booking clinic appointments
• Diary keeping
• Ensuring medical notes are updated in the CITO system
• Updating the RTT system
• Updating a variety of spreadsheets to track clinical work
• Updating rotas

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We provide hospital services from two acute sites – Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester‑Le‑Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale, as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients’ homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under‑represented.

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