Plastic Surgery Medical Secretary

Job summary

We are looking for two medical secretaries to join our team. A full time post and a post which will be three days a week Wednesday to Friday. (set days - non negotiable)

The medical secretary role is key to delivering an effective service to our patients. This role provides efficient and high quality secretarial and administrative support to consultants and their teams, working in close co-operation with staff and other health professionals. In the Plastics department the post holder may cross cover their colleagues in coordinating admissions to ensure the appropriate patient is booked onto the correct theatre list within Trust and national access targets. The medical secretary is an active and supportive member of the department's administrative team

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide administrative support to the clinical team. This involves managing clinics letters and subsequent correspondence, providing excellent customer service to patients and families, and undertaking any needs of the service.

As well as working closely with the Consultants, Associate Specialists, Registrars and Clinical Nurse Specialists within the Trust, you may also be asked to liaise with external agencies. You must be able to work calmly under pressure and have a proven track record in using your own initiative and prioritizing your workload in order to meet tight deadlines.

The medical secretary role is key to delivering an effective service to our patients. This role provides efficient and high quality secretarial and administrative support to consultants and their teams, working in close co-operation with staff and other health professionals. In the Plastics department the post holder may cross cover their colleagues in coordinating admissions to ensure the appropriate patient is booked onto the correct theatre list within Trust and national access targets. The medical secretary is an active and supportive member of the department's administrative team.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.