Team Secretary

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our busy Diabetes and Endocrine team as a Team Secretary based at North Tyneside General Hospital.
To provide a full secretarial service to the Diabetes and Endocrine Consultants, Nurses and teams.
The successful candidate will provide transcription, administrative and secretarial support service to the team. The post holder must be able to use own initiative, work under pressure, keep to strict deadlines and have excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
Knowledge of IT packages and applications is essential. G2 software knowledge desirable but training will be provided. ECDL and knowledge of PAS and previous experience of working within the healthcare environment would be desirable.
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.
The successful candidate would be required to provide comprehensive secretarial service to consultant(s) and their team as well as the following:
Responsible to Lead Secretary.
Act up in absence of Lead Secretary for periods of annual leave/short-term sickness absence.
Provide comprehensive secretarial service to consultant(s) and their team.
Manage diaries, arrange/minute meetings, communication with GPs & patients.
Advanced typing & transcription of clinical & non-clinical documents (OCR 3 or equivalent qualification/experience).
Support Lead Secretary with induction/training of new staff, sharing knowledge with colleagues.
Allocates work to Band 2 staff

Please refer the Job description for details