Medical Support Secretary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Rickmansworth; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is recruiting a Medical Support Secretary - Cancer to assist medical secretaries and Consultants with secretarial and administrative duties within the Cancer Services Directorate. The role requires handling enquiries from staff, patients and relatives by email, telephone and face to face.

You will help schedule patient appointments, liaise with GPs and other hospitals, and ensure treatment forms and referrals are processed promptly to keep patient pathways

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and secretarial support to medical secretaries and Consultants.
• Manage and coordinate patient appointments and liaise with GP practices and other hospitals.

Job description

We are recruiting for a Medical Support Secretary - Cancer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The successful candidate will provide and support the medical secretaries and their Consultants with efficient and effective ranges of secretarial and administrative duties within the Cancer Services Directorate. To manage constantly changing priorities and deadlines, handle enquiries from staff, patients and relatives. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. To manage constantly changing priorities and deadlines. To handle enquiries from staff, patients and relatives via email, telephone, and face to face communication. To provide administrative and secretarial support to the secretaries and their clinical teams and support in delivering a high standard service for all patients. Responsible for making patients' appointments and for informing the patients of arrangements made. To Liaise with GPs, other hospitals, clinics, and other external agencies. Ensuring all treatment forms and referrals are processed in an efficient and prompt manner, ensuring all scans, results and histology are collated. Liaise with Outpatients, Medical secretaries, Chemotherapy booking team, Radiotherapy booking teams to ensure patient pathways are followed with minimal delays.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

Our Hospitals

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.