Paediatric Medical Secretary Allergy and Endocrinology

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We currently have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate as a full time Medical secretary. The post will provide an extensive opportunity to build and develop secretarial skills working for our service.

We are looking for someone with good experience within the NHS, who is enthusiastic and willing to learn. You will need to have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate that you can work strongly within a team. You will need to liaise with patients ,clinicians at all levels and managers within the Trust and at external organizations. Time management skills essential as you will need to balance the demands of a very busy workload.

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.. The medical secretary is an active and supportive member of the department's administrative team.

Main duties of the job

  • To support the clinicians to deliver high standard of service,
  • Liaising with parents regarding queries/appointment dates

**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**

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.

Date posted

07 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£31,944 to £34,937 a year pa pr incl HCAS (inner)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-NN-6525754-A&C-Y-A

Job locations

St Georges Hospital

blackshaw road

tooting

SW17 0QT


Job description

Job responsibilities

**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**

Job description

Job responsibilities

**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good general education including GSCE in Maths or English (or equivalent)
  • RSA III (or equivalent experience)

Desirable

  • Higher level education, qualification in business administration or and admin NVQ)
  • Typing 60 WPM minimum

Experience

Essential

  • secretarial / administration experience
  • Experience of working within a hospital
  • Experience in establishing/maintaining robust admin systems

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to work unsupervised
  • Computer/word processing skills including use of email (eg ability to create directories, documents, mail merge, etc.)
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent organisational skills

Desirable

  • Ability to use Excel / Powerpoint / Access
  • Ability to use the Patient Administration System (iCLIP) and the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) or equivalent
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good general education including GSCE in Maths or English (or equivalent)
  • RSA III (or equivalent experience)

Desirable

  • Higher level education, qualification in business administration or and admin NVQ)
  • Typing 60 WPM minimum

Experience

Essential

  • secretarial / administration experience
  • Experience of working within a hospital
  • Experience in establishing/maintaining robust admin systems

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to work unsupervised
  • Computer/word processing skills including use of email (eg ability to create directories, documents, mail merge, etc.)
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent organisational skills

Desirable

  • Ability to use Excel / Powerpoint / Access
  • Ability to use the Patient Administration System (iCLIP) and the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) or equivalent

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Georges Hospital

blackshaw road

tooting

SW17 0QT


Employer's website

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Georges Hospital

blackshaw road

tooting

SW17 0QT


Employer's website

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

ASM for Paediatric Medicine

Miss Rosalind Trayfoot

rosalind.trayfoot@stgeorges.nhs.uk

07841338539

Date posted

07 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£31,944 to £34,937 a year pa pr incl HCAS (inner)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-NN-6525754-A&C-Y-A

Job locations

St Georges Hospital

blackshaw road

tooting

SW17 0QT


Supporting documents

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