Medical Secretary | Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | Wirral, CH49 5PE |
| Company: | Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6323538/408-23-1175-C |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Medical Secretary within the Surgical Division working within Peri-operative Medicine, anaesthetics department at the Arrowe Park site.
The successful candidate will have the AMSPAR qualification or equivalent experience; they should be organised, approachable and happy to help.
The role is based on-site in the Department of Anaesthesia on Arrowe Park site accessed via stairs only. Please contact us to discuss further if needed.
This interesting and varied role requires the ability to work well on your own initiative whilst being committed to teamwork as you will need to work with others to meet the patients’ needs.
This position also requires good communication skills, the ability to meet the demands of working in a busy environment and is able to represent the department with due professionalism.
You will responsible for implementing and managing systems for the office/team workload, ensuring work is completed within strict timescales.
You will need to exercise your judgement and initiative based on experience and knowledge of arising problems and taking appropriate action to resolve situations, including follow up with investigation results, ensuring that all results are presented to medical staff and subsequently auctioned/filed into patients medical records.
You will have the ability to work under pressure, prioritise your workload and to deal with confidential and sensitive issues in a professional manner.
The minimum requirements for this post are:-
• Minimum of 2 years secretarial experience
• Audio-Typing experience
• AMSPAR Medical Secretarial Diploma or equivalent experience
• RSA 111 Word Processing (or equivalent)
• Good IT Skills/ ECDL are desirable
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Please see Job overview & attached Job description for further information about the Medical Secretary position available with WUTH.
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Jun 2024
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