Medical Secretary
Livewell Southwest
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Job summary
37.5 hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Community Mental Health Service based at the Cumberland Centre.
The Community Mental Health Service works with service users who have a range of mental health difficulties. We are a multi-disciplinary team of Consultant Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Support Workers and other key professionals.
Your role will be to support the mental health consultants with duties including audio typing of clinic dictations, arranging and re-scheduling of appointments, maintaining accurate and up to date patient records, arranging meetings, minute taking and report monitoring. As such, we require someone with the skills to take on this demanding secretarial work. You will have proficient keyboard skills demonstrating accuracy in typing. Experience of audio typing or a willingness to learn this skill is essential.
Although you will primarily be supporting the team based at the Cumberland Centre, there will be a requirement to cover the team at Avon House, Mount Gould whenever needed on occasions.
The post requires excellent communication and organisational skills, good time management, and the ability to prioritise own workload, working under your own initiative. You will need a positive attitude towards people experiencing mental health difficulties and have excellent customer care skills.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to provide a comprehensive, effective, and timely secretarial support to the CMHS Cumberland Consultants and the MDT. There may be occasions where you will be required to cover the Cumberland team either remotely from your office base or in person.
You will actively organise own workload in an efficient and productive manner. You will liaise with all colleagues within the multidisciplinary team, and with internal departments and external agencies to ensure the continuity of patient treatment.
Your role is to support the doctors work in the team and a flexible approach is required. Duties will include audio typing, copy typing letters, updating SystmOne, managing the annual leave for the doctors, recording absences, managing diaries, booking CPA Reviews, answering telephones, liaising and coordinating meetings, minute taking and supporting audit work within the team. You will need excellent organisational skills, good communication skills, a flexible approach, good time management and the ability to prioritise work and manage stress well.
The job holder will need to be flexible to carry out any other duties as may be reasonably required by their line manager.
Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
Protected CPD time for registered staff
Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
Leadership & mentoring programmes
Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
A Robust Preceptorship
A bespoke induction programme
Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Date posted
25 July 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£22,816 to £24,336 a year pa, pro-rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number
B9832-2024-AC-1735-3
Job locations
Cumberland Centre
Damerel Close
Plymouth
PL1 4JZ
Employer details
Employer name
Livewell Southwest
Address
Cumberland Centre
Damerel Close
Plymouth
PL1 4JZ
Employer's website
https://www.livewellsouthwest.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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