Medical Secretarial Assistant - Band 2

Job summary

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 Secretarial Assistant is a vital part of effective patient administration.

Main duties of the job

The Medical Secretarial Assistant:

Assists and supports the medical secretaries in providing an efficient medical secretarial service for the clinical team. Assists and supports the medical secretaries in achieving targets including CQUINs and validation. Provides cover for colleagues in their absence to maintain service levels.

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 morethan 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 beamong the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people andpartners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful inachieving 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 remainedas '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.