Team Administrator/Medical Secretary
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below.When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
We are looking for a motivated individual to join our Administration team within the Adult Community Mental Health Services based in Borehamwood.
Our Administrators are pivotal to our work in providing first line contact to people who call us, and in providing a comprehensive, professional and effective administrative support to our team.
You will have the ability to work well within a team environment and be able to manage and prioritise workload, being able to work on their own initiative with minimal supervision.
In return, we offer structured supervision and access to training and development as part of your own personal development and support plan. A friendly and supportive team environment.
Main duties of the job
The job role involves providing comprehensive, professional, and effective secretarial and administrative support to the Adult Community Mental Health Service. You will be responsible for audio typing, booking appointments for clinics and meetings, answering the telephone, taking messages, passing relevant queries to the duty worker, organising rooms, sending out agendas, taking meeting minutes and other general administrative duties.
This is a busy and varied role so good interpersonal skills are required. As some of the work will involve speaking to service users on the telephone, you must display a considerable degree of tact, possess mature judgement and maintain a calm, friendly and efficient manner.
The right person will be able to work with a degree of autonomy and apply a high degree of confidentiality to all of their work.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
About us - Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust
Heard. Respected. Included. Together, we help people with mental ill-health, learning disabilities and autism to live life to the fullest. We work throughout Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk...https://www.hertsnhsgreattogether.co.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To process clinic letters from the Team Doctors and ensure they are sent within the set timeline.
Responsibility for ensuring all correspondence is accurate and appropriately presented using current methodologies and medical terminology used by the team.
To be skilled and experienced in the full range of secretarial work, practice, software programmes and specialised functional terms.
To be at least proficient in skill in note taking and be able to manage meeting notes in their work loads.
To use proficient internet skills to access searches and retrieve data, relevant to the team.
To use knowledge and experience to meet the needs of the team by completing non-routine tasks daily.
To update skills as necessary and attending mandatory training.
To demonstrate excellent IT skills, a good working knowledge of Microsoft office application and audio typing is desirable.
To ensure flexible approach and be willing to take meeting notes.
To access and update patient records using PARIS database, although training will be provided.
For a more comprehensive Job and Person Specification please read attached before applying
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Audio Typing
- Competent in Windows and Word applications
- Good general education
- ECDL
- Familiar with medical terminology
Experience
Essential criteria- 2 years experience working in an office environment
- Experience recording and typing up meeting minutes
- Experience working in the NHS
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria- Good knowledge of IT and Windows applications
- Good organisational abilities, with good time management skills
- Able to demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of confidentiality
- Knowledge and understanding of health records
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements and that everything they saw “sings and hums”.This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority.
Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles