Medical Secretary
Medical Secretary
Taunton Hospital | Administration | Permanent | Full Time
Up to £23,500.00 per annum depending on experience- 5 hours per week
Nuffield Health is here to take care of the nation's wellbeing. But to keep doing the right thing for customers and patients, our colleagues need the right level of support. That's why we're looking for someone who brings a blend of strong administration skills and a passion for exceptional customer care to join us.
As a Medical Secretary at our Taunton Hospital, you'll bring a keen eye for detail, strong secretarial skills and great communication abilities. You're proficient with Microsoft Office, comfortable working with numbers and you're committed to providing our teams with the best level of support.
As a Medical Secretary, you will:
- Provide secretarial and administrative support to general surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology and orthopaedic consultants.
- Communicate effectively with patients, wider health professionals and team members.
- Prioritise a busy and demanding workload.
- Type all forms of clinical correspondence as dictated by consultants and produce copies for relevant parties, filing of copies in correct sequence.
- Store/forward medical records to appropriate departments.
- Maintain patient databases: input, updating and retrieval and provide data as required.
- Ensure completeness of all notes.
- Process referrals and arrange appropriate outpatient appointments and subsequent procedure dates, as agree with patients and consultants.
- Manage the consultant billing and invoicing requirements.
- Have a very good understanding of GDPR and requirements within this role.
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. From a cycle to work scheme to financial wellbeing support, gym membership and more. At Nuffield Health, we'll take care of what's important to you.
Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital.
Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital is one of the leading providers of private healthcare in the South West. We've built a reputation for clinical excellence and outstanding patient care over the last 40 years. We are constantly investing in our modern hospital.With three new state of the art Ultra Clean Air operating theatres and an endoscopy suite we are proud of the wide range of surgical services and treatments available. The hospital has 41 private en-suite bedrooms split over 2 wards and 11 consulting rooms within our Outpatients Department.
Our areas of specialty include orthopedics and spinal surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, bariatric treatments and diagnostic imaging. Our most recent CQC inspection was undertaken in 2024 and we were enormously proud to be rated overall as Good, with Outstanding for Well Led.
Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.
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