Medical Secretary - Trauma & Orthopaedics - Band 3 - 2024/2025

Job summary

To start on or after 1/4/2024.

Medical Secretary, Trauma and Orthopaedics Business Unit,Lincoln County Hospital

The Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics is looking for an enthusiastic individual to provide cover as a Medical Secretary primarily looking after a Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon, whilst working closely with management, doctors, waiting list team and secretarial assistants.

This is a part time position and can be worked over Monday to Friday with hours ranging from 8am-6pm to be considered.

Main duties of the job

The Medical Secretaries play a pivotal role to ensure an accurate and comprehensive service by maintaining their Consultant's diary, clinic typing, managing patients through their clinical pathways, updating the Patient Administration System (PAS)/Medway system for which you would receive training. You will be willing to support other specialties within the Business Units when shortfalls in capacity arise and depending on the Business Unit priorities.

We are looking for candidates who flourish in an office environment and thrive from problem solving and supporting the Orthopaedic Clinicians. A genuine interest in providing excellent patient care is a must. Experience of working in an office environment would be advantageous and we would welcome any candidates who are looking to get their start within the NHS.

Patient administration underpins the patient journey, supports clinical teams in delivering high quality patient care and can make a real difference to the patient experience. Effective and efficient patient administration supports management through ensuring a high standard of data quality and by making the best use of capacity and resources. The Medical Secretary is a vital part of effective patient administration.

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.