Senior Medical Secretary ENT

Provide Secretarial support to one or more consultants as well as junior staff and to assist in the organisation of the consultants work load. Effective and efficient management of patient administration systems. Booking of elective surgery and management of the elective waiting list.

To provide a personal assistant and medical secretarial service to a Consultant and other medical staff in relation to their clinical duties.

To manage the Consultants waiting list and the booking of theatre lists in line with Trust policy and national 18 week RTT guidelines.

To undertake medical audio/copy typing duties including outpatient letters to General Practitioners operation notes and letters, discharge summaries and other official correspondence if required.

To undertake responsibility to ensure any outsourced work for the Acute Clinics is correctly checked and uploaded to the Trust records and applications.

To respond to enquiries from GPs, other Health Service personnel, patients and relatives

To participate in the collection and transmission of information to enable the Directorate to meet its objectives.

To assist with sorting day to day post.

To participate in the introduction and use of IT and to provide IT support to colleagues.

To cover, as is practical, Medical Secretary colleagues

To participate in the use of PAS systems to establish patient information is kept as accurate as possible and produce patient documentation as required.

To undertake any other duties as may be required as appropriate by the Consultant or the Directorate Management Team in accordance to the needs of the service.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large

acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute

services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a

larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from

three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our

caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred

care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to

work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our

everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise

accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working

within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

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