Team Secretary

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a proactive administrative professional to provide secretarial support to a consultant team. You will manage day-to-day running of doctor rotas, plan rotations, and co-ordinate annual and study leave, ensuring smooth service delivery.

The role requires adaptable, organized individuals with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who can work under pressure and take the initiative in a busy hospital environment across Northumberland

Qualifications

• Experience as a secretary/administrator in a clinical or hospital setting.
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation abilities.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive secretarial service to consultant(s) and team.
• Maintain day-to-day running of senior/junior doctor rota and plan rotations.
• Coordinate annual and study leave and support rota changes.

Skills

Adaptable

Organisational skills

Initiative

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Work under pressure

Job description

• This is a busy department that requires an adaptable, flexible, enthusiastic, hardworking team member who has excellent organisational skills and can use their own initiative.
• The successful candidate will provide high quality support to a team of consultants.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills together with the ability to work under pressure are required.
• To provide comprehensive secretarial service to consultant(s) and their team and maintain day to day running of senior/junior doctor rota, including planning new rotations and allocating annual /study leave
• We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.