Medical Secretary - Dermatology | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

We are recruiting for a Medical Secretary - Dermatology who share/s our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients

The Dermatology Department is a dynamic service with many development opportunities. The department is a rewarding and exciting place to work.

You will be responsible for the provision of an efficient, comprehensive personal assistant and administrative support service to the Consultants and any other members of their teams. You will be required to work independently using your own initiative and must apply a high degree of confidentiality to all aspects of your work.

In addition, you will receive a High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,192 and a maximum payment of £2,011.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

You will support the Consultant and their teams in ensuring all appropriate typing work is efficiently outsourced and returned, then subsequently dispatched following signature. This could include all letters, reports, summaries, results, insurance claims, GP and Consultant letters and any other work generated by the Consultants and their teams.

To deal efficiently with all patient enquiries by phone, letter, fax or in person, exercising initiative and tact with regard to action necessary.

Ensure that all messages are relayed as quickly as possible to the consultant and their medical teams.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our

catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Nov 2024