Senior Medical Secretary, Oncology, WRH

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

The closing date is 16 April 2025

Job summary

Senior Medical Secretaries - Clinical/Medical Oncology 18 hours per week

Based at the Worcestershire Oncology Centre within Worcestershire Royal Hospital

Due to the expansion of services, we are seeking highly organised and compassionate medical secretaries to join our existing team within the speciality of Medical/Clinical Oncology. As a vital member of our team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient administration of oncology services, providing essential support to our medical professionals and patients.

Main duties of the job

You will be required to provide a comprehensive secretarial service for the consultant oncologist and multi-disciplinary team in accordance with Trust/departmental policies and procedures.

You should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in addition to a clear understanding of patient confidentiality. You must possess a good working knowledge of IT packages and the ability to work across a mixed skill team

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

Best services for local people
Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
Best use of resources
Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Date posted

02 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9365-25-0018-1

Job locations

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Senior administrative experience, i.e PA, Service Navigator, etc.
Providing secretarial support to a clinical team.

Desirable

Medical secretarial experience
Experience of working in NHS or other large organisation

Personal Qualities

Essential

Aware of self-presentation.
Able to work under pressure/to deadlines.
Attention to detail.
Able to work as part of a team.
Able to handle more than one job at once.
Positive attitude and not resistant to change.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

Audio typing.
Good organisational, written and communication skills.
Able to produce accurate and timely work.
Ability to prioritise workload.
Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
Excellent telephone manner.
Use of Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel).

Desirable

Knowledge of PAS Allscripts
Medical Terminology.

Qualifications

Essential

GCSE or equivalent English & Maths
RSA II or equivalent

Desirable

EDCL
AMSPAR Diploma/working towards or recognised training in medical secretarial work

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Senior administrative experience, i.e PA, Service Navigator, etc.
Providing secretarial support to a clinical team.

Desirable

Medical secretarial experience
Experience of working in NHS or other large organisation

Personal Qualities

Essential

Aware of self-presentation.
Able to work under pressure/to deadlines.
Attention to detail.
Able to work as part of a team.
Able to handle more than one job at once.
Positive attitude and not resistant to change.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

Audio typing.
Good organisational, written and communication skills.
Able to produce accurate and timely work.
Ability to prioritise workload.
Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
Excellent telephone manner.
Use of Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel).

Desirable

Knowledge of PAS Allscripts
Medical Terminology.

Qualifications

Essential

GCSE or equivalent English & Maths
RSA II or equivalent

Desirable

EDCL
AMSPAR Diploma/working towards or recognised training in medical secretarial work

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.