Medical Secretary - Children's Services

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen within Children's Services in the Community to provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative service to our Paediatric Consultants and Registrars.,

• Type clinical outcome letters and reports as required. Elements of this could be of a sensitive and distressing nature.
• Requirements for speed and accuracy with excellent keyboard skills.
• Type non-clinical work as and when requested.
• Chase results as required and alerting the appropriate consultant promptly when results arrive.
• Where possible, identify issues that require the urgent attention of the Consultant.
• Manage investigation logs.
• Provide diary management for the clinician organising appointments /meetings.
• Participate in management of Child Protection Medicals.
• Liaise with professionals and colleagues both internally and externally.
• Proactively manage telephone calls by providing general non-clinical advice, guidance and information.
• To work as part of a team and provide cross cover during periods of staff absence.
• Accountable for working to targets in relation to typing and RTT.
• Accurate minute taking at relevant meetings and distribute a record in a timely manner and ensure actions are followed up.
• Carry out general office duties such as photocopying, scanning, etc as required.
• Arrange and attend consultant meetings when required, team briefings and any other meetings as directed by the manager and appropriate to position held within the Trust.
• Management of patient wait lists/booking of appointments as required.
• Book Interpreters as required.
  
  Working proactively as part of a team as well as on your own, you must have effective communication skills, both face to face and over the telephone, as liaison is required with external agencies, parents/guardians and internal professionals. You will be working in a demanding but rewarding environment and be required to take the lead in organising and coordinating information required to support the work of safeguarding and child protection. You will ensure open communication channels exist and act as a co-ordinator to facilitate and convene meetings for all partner organisations e.g. education, social services. You will have proven organisational skills, dairy management and prioritisation skills and a strong commitment to personal and professional development. It is preferred that you have experience in working in a similar role and in a community setting.
Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages is essential, and you will ideally possess a typing qualification coupled with excellent audio typing skills, and a recognised medical terminology qualification or working towards this. As this role involves clinic management an understanding of the 18week RTT principles is desired.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.