Medical Secretary

Undertake audio and clerical duties for your consultants, including minute taking as required, clinical letters, reports, discharge correspondence and clinical activity data inputting. This may include administrative support relating to consultant tutorial work.

Provide first point of contact for written and telephone enquiries on behalf of your consultants, using judgement to establish validity and priority of the contact.

Deal with any enquiries using judgement and always observing patient confidentiality.

Liaise with General Practitioner regarding clinic and domiciliary visits.

Liaise with outside agencies, including Social Services, Coroner's Office, other hospitals, general and geriatric, medical services, clients and their relatives using their knowledge and judgement of any given situation.

Liaise on behalf of your consultants with multi-disciplinary team members regarding requirements for joint outpatient's work/care programming activity.

Track all service users from referral to discharge ensuring all appointment and correspondence are within local and national targets.

Ensure all discharge summaries are allocated and completed within agreed process and timeframe.

Check the patient's status, check that X-rays, follow up appointments etc. have been booked when mentioned in correspondence / discharge correspondence using the EPR systems. Ensure demographic details are correct and amend where necessary.

See attached detailed job description and person specification:

Staff benefits

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Experience

Essential: - Experience in working in a busy office environment.

Desirable: - Secretarial/admin experience

Education

Essential: - Maths and English or equivalent

Desirable: - Audio/typing qualification