Team Secretary

To provide a comprehensive secretarial support service to consultants, junior medical staff, specialist nurses and medical secretaries ensuring the highest level of confidentiality is maintained at all times, To provide high quality audio-typing and word processing with medical terminology, as required by Medical and Nursing staff, ensuring that the work is completed in an efficient and timely manner.
To obtain investigation results and exercise judgement to ensure that medical attention is urgently drawn to abnormal results.
To ensure all information and messages received from patients, colleagues, clinical managerial staff are communicated efficiently and correctly. This can be of a sensitive or complex nature.
To act up in the absence of the Senior Team Secretary, ensuring all duties are completed in an effective and efficient manner to ensure an optimum service is maintained at all times.
To provide cross cover for the secretarial team during absences.
Respond positively and promptly to enquiries and problems received from patients, clinical staff and other agencies, using initiative to take appropriate action in accordance with departmental policies and
procedures.

Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly., Qualifications - Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc) you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant's qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider. Furthermore, a sample of all applicants' qualifications will be checked back to the educational institution or provider to interview letters to further deter fraud.
Sponsorship - Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. As of 1 January 2021, free movement ended and the UK introduced a points-based immigration system. Further information is available regarding two types of visa; Health Care Visa https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/your-job and Skilled worker visa https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.