Senior Medical Secretary - Trauma & Orthopaedics

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust; Stockport; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare facility is seeking a proactive Senior Medical Secretary to support the Trauma & Orthopaedic service. The ideal candidate will have previous secretarial experience, excellent organization and communication skills, and the ability to navigate computerized systems. This role involves managing patient records, arranging appointments, and providing an efficient secretarial service to Consultants within a dynamic NHS Trust in Stockport.

Benefits

27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS pension scheme membership

NHS Staff discounts

Salary sacrifice schemes

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Proven secretarial experience in a healthcare setting.
• Ability to work effectively within a team.
• Strong typing speed and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Provide secretarial service to named Consultants.
• Manage and maintain patient records.
• Arrange appointments and ensure RTT status is up to date.

Skills

Organisation skills

Communication skills

Typing skills

Education

Previous secretarial experience

Tools

Patient Administration System

Winscribe Digital dictation system

Job description

Overview

To provide an effective and efficient Senior Medical Secretary role to named Consultants within the Trauma & Orthopaedic service. To provide senior medical secretarial service directly to named Consultants.

• To ensure RTT (18 week pathway) status is recorded accurately and is up to date.
• To collate information for clinical audits if required.
• To undertake medical audio/copy typing duties including outpatient letters to General Practitioners and any other official correspondence i.e reports.
• Arranging appointments as required.
• Be responsible for arranging special tests requested by the Consultant or Junior Medical Staff.
• To be responsible for and collation of investigation results.
• Responsible for obtaining relevant investigation results from PACS and Intranet result service.
• To deal with day to day incoming mail, assigning priority and/or taking any necessary action without reference to Consultant staff if necessary and within remit.
• To ensure patient pathways are updated as appropriate.
• To respond to enquiries received from GPs and other Health Personnel, patients and relatives.
• To maintain patient records and track notes electronically in a manner acceptable to the Trust.
• Engage in the use of Evolve and all other electronic patient notes system.
• To observe absolute confidentiality of all information obtained in the course of your work.
• To liaise with Health Records/Appointments staff regarding outpatient clinic numbers, urgent appointments and Consultant/Junior Medical Staff annual leave.
• To actively participate in the introduction of and use of information technology.
• To cover, as practical, other secretarial team members absences.
• To undertake any other duties as may be required as appropriate by the Consultant or line manager in accordance to the needs of the service.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for proactive and enthusiastic individuals to join the medical secretarial team in the Surgery, GI and Critical Care Division at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. As a team player you will be responsible for providing a full secretarial service to the Trauma & Orthopaedic service within the Division. The post holder will be required to use computerised systems such as Patient Centre (Patient Administration System), Advantis and the Winscribe Digital dictation system.

The successful candidate will have previous secretarial experience and will possess excellent organisation, communication, typing skills and the ability to work in a team environment.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you\'ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.

Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four 'specialist' hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a 'specialist' hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.

In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' (see additional documentation) and provide examples. We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting and championing a culture of diversity, fairness and equality for all applicants and employees. Our "two tick" kite mark guarantees a candidate with a disability, who fulfills the essential criteria, an interview at the Trust. We can make reasonable adjustments, and offer support and advice in a variety of ways on request.

Application Support & Flexibility

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods. We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice