Medical Secretary

We are currently looking to recruit a Medical Secretary for the Home Treatment Team in Dudley within Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, based at Dorothy Pattison Hospital in Walsall.

We require an enthusiastic and highly motivated Medical Secretary, who can provide an efficient secretarial support service to a Consultant Psychiatrist and their respective team in General Adult Psychiatry.

You will be expected to work independently and as part of a team, exercising judgement and initiative to prioritise and co-ordinate your own workload. In addition to general medical secretarial duties the post-holder will attend multidisciplinary team meetings when required and follow up meeting actions, ensuring patients' medical records are kept up-to-date, book appointments, co-ordinate Outpatient and Community Clinics . You will be required to use various computerised systems, e.g. Microsoft Office, Outlook and patient administration systems (eg; RIO) to input referrals and make appointments where required, together with audio transcription via a digital dictation system (Bighand). Please note that full training will be provided on the relevant IT systems.

The post holder will provide a comprehensive medical secretarial role, acting as first point of contact for the medical team.