Medical Secretary

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Job overview

UHBW has an exciting opportunity to join the Diabetes and Endocrinology Medical Secretary team as a Band 3 part time permanent post.

Reporting to the Assistant Speciality Manager and supported by the Medical Secretaries. Flexible/home working and on-site across BRI and South Bristol Hospitals available.

This role involves the maintenance and day to day running of the Diabetes and Endocrine database. As well as providing secretarial support to the senior medical secretaries within the team. You will be a point of contact for medical and non-medical staff, patients, relatives and carers.

Good IT and communication skills are essential.

Main duties of the job

Communication:

• To liaise with and act as a point of contact for clinical and non-clinical staff via telephone and email
• To act as a point of contact for patients, relatives and carers. The post holder should be polite and empathetic to the patient’s needs at all times and be able to communicate effectively when dealing with difficult situations/conversations
• Returning calls promptly and keeping callers updated with information in an effective and efficient way

Patient Care:

• To show a caring and professional approach towards patients, relatives and carers. This may require acting with resilience to deal with sometimes distressed patients and relatives in a professional and empathetic manner

Organising and Planning:

• Ensure patient records are up to date and maintained. Tracing case notes where necessary to ensure readiness for clinic
• Checking and sorting investigation reports and passing information on to clinical team as required
• Ensuring speciality specific documentation is completed and filed appropriately
• Attend appropriate meetings as required by the role’s line manager
• To gain a working understanding of other specialties in order to provide cover for other secretaries in times of sickness or annual leave and undertake any duties deemed reasonable by your line manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Educated to GCSE, grade C or above (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths
• Business and Administration Level 3 NVQ or equivalent experience
• Qualified in word processing or audio typing (or equivalent)

Skills and Abilities

• Effective and Polite manner when dealing with people both face to face and on the phone
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines whilst maintaining a high standard of accuracy
• Ability to work effectively in a busy team, adjust to change and motivate others
• Ability to work on your own using your own initiative, if required
• Confidence to handle difficult conversations with patients, relatives and carers
• Effective organisational skills
• Good IT skills including Microsoft packages
• Attention to detail
• Ability to adapt to use new computer packages and programmes

• Working knowledge of admission policies and Procedures

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of dealing with the public, both on telephone and in person

• Clerical / administrative experience
• Previous NHS experience
• Understanding of medical terminology

• As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
• The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
• UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
• To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
• If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
• By applying for this post, you are agreeing to University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
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Please note that if you apply for a position with this Trust, you may be contacted via Trac or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your Trac account and email accounts. We may also contact you by texting the mobile number, if provided, on the application form.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.

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