Medical Secretary - Diabetes & Endocrine

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; Lewisham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Lewisham seeks a Medical Secretary to provide essential administrative support to consultants and their teams. The role demands the ability to manage workloads independently and ensure effective communication with patients and external organizations. Expect responsibilities such as organizing meetings, managing clinical documentation, and enhancing EDI initiatives to support a diverse workforce. This position is vital in maintaining high standards of patient services and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing secretarial support in a medical environment.
• Ability to manage administrative workloads independently.
• Strong communication skills with patients and external organizations.

Responsibilities

• Provide full Medical Secretarial support to consultants.
• Manage administrative workload effectively.
• Ensure high-quality communication with patients and external bodies.

Job description

To provide full Medical Secretarial support service to consultants and members of their team in respect of their general medical duties/specialist work.

To act independently, ensuring that daily tasks and on-going workloads are prioritised within required time frames.

To ensure that the service is providing the highest quality administration and effective communication with patients and members of the outside organisation.

To ensure the successful implementation and roll out of admin systems and procedures within the department.

Main duties of the job

To act as a central point of information and communication for the clinical team as the first point of contact to include internal and external bodies.

Manages admin workload of relevant consultants without direct supervision.

To provide a full secretarial support service to consultants and members of their team in respect to their general medical duties and specialist work including dealing with competing demands and frequent demands.

To act independently ensuring that daily tasks and ongoing workloads are prioritised and completed in agreed timeframes.

Undertake a comprehensive range of administrative duties including, organising meetings, typing, scanning of documentation on to Trust systems, spreadsheet management, clinic preparation eg, ensuring clinical documentation is readily available.

To produce correspondence by utilising digital transcription.

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

EDI Initiatives

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations