Bank - Medical Secretaries

at  NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Are you available to work and do you have relevant experience working as a Medical Secretary or are you an experienced PA with experience in a clinical setting. If so, we need you to work in our busy NHS setting to cover ongoing vacancies.
Please note: If you have applied for this or a similar role within the last six months and were not shortlisted, we kindly ask you not to reapply at this time unless your skills and experience have significantly changed.
The successful candidate will provide comprehensive confidential secretarial and administrative support to the multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring efficient and smooth running of the service.
To be responsible for providing day to day administrative support to the service, within the context of a paper light office. The post requires the ability to work on own initiative and to liaise effectively with a broad range of professions and service users and to maintain client confidentiality.
The post holder will be required to work in a busy and demanding environment and should be flexible and adaptable whilst having the ability to prioritise work and use their initiative to make sound judgements.
To be the primary point-of-contact for the Medical Consultants. Deal with
enquiries on their behalf, take messages accurately, give information and advice (not medical) to GPs, relatives and other staff involved with the patient in a manner responsive to customer needs and in accordance with consent to share information.
Please note that whilst hours are flexible on bank, medical secretarial shifts are usually required within office hours, Monday – Friday.
Please only apply if you are available to work and have the knowledge and experience we are looking for.
To provide a comprehensive administrative service to the community and multidisciplinary teams, including processing all referrals, reports, correspondence, documentation, and related filing, and photocopying and scanning.
To ensure that all incoming post is date-stamped, scanned, and distributed to the appropriate persons and that out-going mail is sorted according to internal, external departments and relevant agencies.
To type correspondence when required.
To maintain office filing systems and ensure information relating to service users is accessible to relevant staff, always ensuring confidentiality.
To maintain a standard filing system ensuring that the filing of patient notes, correspondence, questionnaires etc are kept up to date in line with record keeping policies and to ensure patients records are updated on in house systems.
To book interpreters and translators for clients’ appointments and monitor confirmation of bookings and action as appropriate.
We operate a Temporary Staffing service and offer our Bank Staff excellent benefits including:
Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay
Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay
My Trust Benefits discount scheme
Access to the NHS pension scheme
Paid mandatory training
Opportunities for locally agreed training
Flexibility of hours/location
Priority over agency staff for booking shifts
Free uniform
Opportunity to apply for permanent posts
The main duties of the post are outlined in the attached job description.
If you have any queries please contact temporary staffing recruitment

Please refer the Job description for details