Support Medical Secretary - Merthyr Tydfil - ref. v54515
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Job overview
This post is fixed term/secondment for 3 months in order to meet the needs of the service. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a secondment post/fixed term post within the Colorectal Department at Prince Charles Hospital .
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic candidate with preferably some medical secretarial experience to provide a secretarial and administrative service within the Surgical Department.
The successful candidate will join a friendly secretarial/administration team.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for somebody with excellent communication skills that can work under pressure and be able to use their own initiative, with an ability to prioritise work to meet deadlines.
The ideal candidate will need to have exceptional typing skills and fully competent in audio-typing.
The ideal candidate will need to have excellent organisational and time management skills to co-ordinate and manage clinical diaries, clinical activity and ensure workload is prioritised to ensure the best possible patient care.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications/Knowledge
Essential criteria- RSA III in word processing or equivalent/NVQ; Excellent standard of education
- Knowledge of Health Board’s WPAS system and tracker/Radis; Knowledge of RTT and patient pathways
- Knowledge of medical terminology
Experience
Essential criteria- Previous experience as an assistant medical secretary or similar role
- Working as an Assistant Medical Secretary
- Experience of working in a hospital environment
Skills
Essential criteria- Accurate typing and the ability to use an audio type back system
If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.