Personal Medical Secretary

Due to the recent theatre expansion at Whiston Hospitals, we are looking to expand the Personal Medical Secretary teams within the following departments, To provide a comprehensive service to the Consultants and Specialty Teams with the minimum of supervision. Organise your workload and co-ordinate activities with other Medical Secretaries to ensure that an efficient service is provided. It is essential that you should exercise initiative commensurate with the role and it is vital that confidentiality is maintained at all times.

The Surgical Care Group provides a full range of acute in-patient, out-patient, day case and emergency services to the local communities of St Helens, Knowsley and Halton and out of area patients.

Clinical Support Services at Whiston Hospital is looking to appoint Personal Medical Secretaries to provide a comprehensive service with the minimum of supervision. The successful applicant will be able to organise their own workload and co-ordinate workload activities with other Personal Medical Secretaries in the team. The successful candidates will be of a pleasant disposition, have excellent interpersonal skills and a friendly telephone manner.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

o Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

o Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

o National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme