Private Patient Secretary

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Derby; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization seeks a Senior Secretary to oversee the management of clinical documentation and provide secretarial support to consultants. The role requires strong organizational and communication skills, with a focus on confidentiality and efficiency. Benefits include professional development opportunities and staff wellness programs.

Benefits

Development opportunities

On-going support during recruitment

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in a secretarial role within healthcare is advantageous.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage sensitive information.
• Strong communication skills and experience in liaising with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Organise and manage clinical documentation and accounts for consultants.
• Provide efficient secretarial support, including typing correspondence and managing diaries.
• Act as primary contact for consultants and stakeholders, ensuring high-quality service.

Skills

Confidentiality

Communication

Organizational skills

Time management

Job description

The posts main role will be to organise and oversee the management of the consultant’s private clinical documentation and their accounts, and to provide a professional and comprehensive senior secretarial service to the management team.

You will provide a full range of confidential secretarial services including handling of mail, initiating, drafting and typing of all clinical correspondence, filing and diary management, so that the service runs smoothly.

To represent Derby Private Health/Trust and to liaise daily with several insurance companies and patients who are our stakeholders in a professional and reassuring manner.

To act as the primary point of contact for consultants and to build and maintain an excellent relationship with secretaries internal and external to Derby Private Health/Trust

Provide an efficient medical secretarial service with concise, accurate and timely presentation of work, completed as specified by consultants

To carry out all typing and general clerical duties in connection with the Consultants work at Derby Private Health, including typing of correspondence and reports, taking notes, filing, photocopying, audio typing, minute taking and accounts.

Typing and dispatching of clinical correspondence related to Private Patients requires a 24-hour turnaround to a high-quality standard.

Closing date of applications: 19th June 2025

Interview date: 02nd July 2025

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
  
  

Key Facts

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jordine Davis Job title: Service Co-ordinator Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01332 786978