Senior Medical Secretary ENT

NHS Jobs; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Massachusetts is seeking a Medical Secretary/Personal Assistant to support a Consultant and medical staff with clinical duties. The role includes managing waiting lists and theatre bookings, typing outpatient letters, discharge summaries, and handling routine communications with GPs and patients.

The position involves IT system use, data handling, and occasional cross-cover for colleagues, contributing to timely patient care and service objectives in a NHS Trust setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide a personal assistant and medical secretarial service to a Consultant and other medical staff in relation to their clinical duties.
• Manage the Consultant's waiting list and the booking of theatre lists in line with Trust policy and national 18 week RTT guidelines.
• Undertake medical audio/copy typing duties including outpatient letters to General Practitioners, operation notes and letters, discharge summaries and other official correspondence if required.
• Oversee outsourced work for the Acute Clinics is correctly checked and uploaded to the Trust records and applications.
• Respond to enquiries from GPs, other Health Service personnel, patients and relatives.
• Participate in the collection and transmission of information to enable the Directorate to meet its objectives.
• Assist with sorting day to day post.
• Participate in the introduction and use of IT and to provide IT support to colleagues.
• Cover, as is practical, Medical Secretary colleagues
• Use PAS systems to establish patient information is kept accurate and produce patient documentation as required.
• Undertake any other duties as may be required as appropriate by the Consultant or Directorate Management Team in accordance to the needs of the service.

Job description

• To provide a personal assistant and medical secretarial service to a Consultant and other medical staff in relation to their clinical duties.


• To manage the Consultants waiting list and the booking of theatre lists in line with Trust policy and national 18 week RTT guidelines.


• To undertake medical audio/copy typing duties including outpatient letters to General Practitioners operation notes and letters, discharge summaries and other official correspondence if required.


• To undertake responsibility to ensure any outsourced work for the Acute Clinics is correctly checked and uploaded to the Trust records and applications.


• To respond to enquiries from GPs, other Health Service personnel, patients and relatives


• To participate in the collection and transmission of information to enable the Directorate to meet its objectives.


• To assist with sorting day to day post.


• To participate in the introduction and use of IT and to provide IT support to colleagues.


• To cover, as is practical, Medical Secretary colleagues


• To participate in the use of PAS systems to establish patient information is kept as accurate as possible and produce patient documentation as required.


• To undertake any other duties as may be required as appropriate by the Consultant or the Directorate Management Team in accordance to the needs of the service.