Band 3 Supporting Secretary | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham Community Health Care Nhs Foundation Trust, Gib Heath, Birmingham
Band 3 Supporting Secretary | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Birmingham Community Health Care Nhs Foundation Trust, Gib Heath, Birmingham
- Part time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 1 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 1f48aeeec6cd43059e3f76c43e614e39
Full Job Description
You will responsible for the provision of a comprehensive secretarial and administrative service in respect of Education Health clinics for a team of Community Paediatric Doctors. Duties will include audio typing, handling telephone calls, liaising closely with Doctors and Administrative colleagues and organising correspondence around clinic appointments. The typing of confidential, complex and often sensitive clinical reports is also an integral part of the role. You will have the ability to work under pressure, prioritise your workload and to deal with confidential and sensitive issues in a professional manner. This role is 24 hours per week working as a Supporting Secretary in the Education Health & Care.
- Accurate transcription (either by digital dictation, audio or copy typing) of confidential correspondence, reports, notes of meetings and any other correspondence within agreed and acceptable timescales. Occasionally correspondence, by its nature, may be upsetting.
- Making and receiving telephone calls, both internally and externally, ensuring all messages are taken and relayed accurately to the appropriate member of the Team. Using own judgement to resolve problems arising.
- Daily contact with members of the Community Paediatric Team, Education Health & Care Team and the Central Booking Service liaising as appropriate and ensuring accurate information is passed on to the relevant service. Acting as a link between the Team and parents/carers by telephone /face to face, ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times. Be Part of Our Team... BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands. If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you. Other Duties To ensure attendance and active participation in team meetings. Adopting a flexible working pattern within the secretarial team, in order to provide relevant cover for colleagues during periods of annual/sick leave as necessary. If applicable, through appropriate training, gain and retain an understanding of the working process/systems of the reception both from an information point of view and ability to cover at short notice during periods of sickness/annual leave as deemed necessary. Participate in an annual appraisal and personal development plan/objective setting and attend statutory or appropriate training as identified and required by this process. Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification documents for full details of the main duties and responsibilities.
This interesting and varied role requires the ability to work well on your own initiative whilst being committed to teamwork. This position also requires good communication skills and the ability to meet the demands of working in a busy environment.
The role is based at Birmingham Community Children's Centre, 61 Bacchus Road, B18 4QY This is a permanent post offered on a part time basis, working 24 hours per week.