Support Secretary - Vascular Surgery

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Support Secretary within the Vascular Surgery Unit at Colchester Hospital.

If you enjoy working as part of a team and have a flexible approach and professional attitude with the necessary skills to provide a high standard of secretarial support to this busy, high profile division; then we would like to hear from you.

We are looking for a Support Secretary to join the Vascular Surgery Department, You will be based at Colchester Hospital. We are a busy, friendly department caring for patients with a wide range of Vascular problems.

You must possess excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills including excellent keyboard skills and a good working knowledge of Microsoft. You must have the ability to work under pressure with a flexible approach to workloads, delivering excellent patient care.

Main duties of the job

In this role you willcarry out medical secretarial administrative duties, adhering to policies and procedures to provide a comprehensive high quality service. You will deal efficiently and courteously with patient and staff enquiries.

For this role you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be able to prioritise and adapt to constant demands on the workload as well as be able to demonstrate the ability to work as a team member.

Essential skills required for the post include: good typing and audio skills, the ability to prioritise tasks, effective time management skills, good IT and secretarial skills, supporting with theatre booking, interpersonal and organisation skills.

To ensure a high standard of secretarial and administrative service is consistently delivered by undertaking all required tasks and activities on a daily basis

To utilise the required technology including Big Hand, Evolve, Microsoft and any other new technology or system(s) that are introduced and support other team members to do so to deliver an efficient administrative and secretarial service.

To type general correspondence / dictated correspondence and clinic letters using BigHand and utilising agreed templates to meet commissioner standards

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Heath Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Heath Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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