Medical Secretary

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual who would like to join Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). You will be joining a vibrant, established and well-trained multi-disciplinary team where values are based on high quality care and delivery, which is integral to all decision making. The team enjoy working together, setting new challenges and jointly celebrating successes.

The vacant post is to provide a high quality medical secretarial support to the consultants and clinical team ensuring that the highest standards are maintained in line with the Trust's policies and procedures.

The successful candidate is required to have extensive knowledge of the NHS core business systems and processes.

The successful candidate would need to have good organisational skills and have the ability to manage the extensive workloads and to meet pre-determined deadlines.

The successful candidate would be required to have the ability to work both as part of a busy team and ontheir own initiative.

The successful candidate will undertake the full range of secretarial duties including audio typing via the BigHand electronic system (Tapes on occasion), discharging patients via PARIS, general correspondence, patient assessments, tribunal reports, legal court reports and prioritising clinical letters accordingly

Main duties of the job

To undertake the full range of secretarial duties including audio typing via the BigHand electronic system (Tapes on occasion), inputting patients via PARIS, general correspondence, patient assessments, prioritising clinical letters accordingly and any duties deemed necessary.

Communicate professionally and effectively with internal and external contacts using a variety of methods.

Ensuring that an efficient and courteous service is offered to all service users and that confidentiality is strictly maintained.

Act as a liaison for patients, clinicians, GP's and nursing staff, Medical Records, external Mental Health Teams, Practitioners, Local Authority staff and other agencies, both over the phone and face-to-face contact.

Take telephone messages and / or take messages from answer-phone when necessary and deliver that message to the appropriate person in a timely manner.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.