Medical Secretary (General Practice)

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

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Job summary

Our Medical Secretarial team is one of our four Clinical Operations Administration Teams who provide secretarial/administrative support to our organisation.

Based at Oakham Surgery you will work alongside colleagues to provide a seamless service to our registered patient population. We utilise a variety of systems and our main patient system is SystmOne to access our patient information. Robust knowledge of IT systems and working with multiple systems at the same time are essential to the role.

Main duties of the job

Our Medical Secretarial team is one of our four Clinical Operations Administration Teams who provide secretarial/administrative support to our organisation. We have a Medical Secretary vacancy available and full and part time will be considered.

The role is busy but rewarding and the successful candidate should possess broad secretarial skills including excellent organisational and communication skills. He/she needs to work well and accurately and be able to co-ordinate their own workflow and also work as part of a team. The successful applicant will need to have at least 2 years experience in a secretarial role.

About us

Welcome to Your Health Partnership (YHP), an innovative and forward-thinking Primary Care Network based across 7 sites in the heart of Sandwell.

Part of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, YHP provides a range of Primary and Secondary Care services shaped around the needs of our registered population; 54,000 patients.

As a team, we share and uphold the organisations values in all that we do. If you share our values and feel that you can contribute to our team and the service we provide, we would welcome your application.

Date posted

31 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

381-CT-5335529

Job locations

Oakham Surgery

213 Regent Road

Tividale, Oldbury

B69 1RZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification full details of what this role entails.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification full details of what this role entails.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

RSA 11 Typing/Word Processing or equivalent
GCE/GCSE English or equivalent, Grade C or above

Desirable

Knowledge of SystmOne
RSA 111 Typing/Word Processing or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Extensive secretarial experience in a secretarial/administrative role

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

RSA 11 Typing/Word Processing or equivalent
GCE/GCSE English or equivalent, Grade C or above

Desirable

Knowledge of SystmOne
RSA 111 Typing/Word Processing or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Extensive secretarial experience in a secretarial/administrative role

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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