Private Patient Secretary
The closing date is 19 June 2025
Job summary
The posts main role will be to organise and oversee the management of the consultant's private clinical documentation and their accounts, and to provide a professional and comprehensive senior secretarial service to the management team.
You will provide a full range of confidential secretarial services including handling of mail, initiating, drafting and typing of all clinical correspondence, filing and diary management, so that the service runs smoothly.
Main duties of the job
To represent Derby Private Health/Trust and to liaise daily with several insurance companies and patients who are our stakeholders in a professional and reassuring manner.
To act as the primary point of contact for consultants and to build and maintain an excellent relationship with secretaries internal and external to Derby Private Health/Trust
Provide an efficient medical secretarial service with concise, accurate and timely presentation of work, completed as specified by consultants
To carry out all typing and general clerical duties in connection with the Consultants work at Derby Private Health, including typing of correspondence and reports, taking notes, filing, photocopying, audio typing, minute taking and accounts.
Typing and dispatching of clinical correspondence related to Private Patients requires a 24-hour turnaround to a high-quality standard.
Closing date of applications: 19th June 2025
Interview date: 02nd July 2025
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
- On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
- We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
- We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
- An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
- Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
- Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
- We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
- We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
- UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Details
Date posted
05 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year pro rata pa
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
320-SURG-1241-A
Job locations
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3NE
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Address
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3NE
Employer's website
https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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