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Medical Secretary

Job Description

Service Care Solutions are currently recruiting for a Band 4 Medical Secretary to work within the NHS on a 3-4 month temporary agency contact. This role will be based within the Birmingham and Solihul NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust.

Hours
37.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri)

Rate
(£11.47 PAYE Rate)
Paid weekly via an umbrella company

Main Duties
To provide a comprehensive, reliable, confidential secretarial and admin service to various teams/ departments within the service.

Some of the main duties will include:

  • Responsibility for providing a comprehensive secretarial and administrative service to the Consultant Psychiatrist and members of the medical team.
  • Maintain good working relationships with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
  • Liaise with a wide range of health service personnel, including those at a senior level within the Division, together with a wide range of outside agencies and organisations including General Practitioners etc.
  • To be able to deal tactfully and effectively with crisis calls and calls of a highly sensitive nature, using analytical and judgement skills
  • Responsibility for accurate entries on to the patient information system on a day of receipt, ensuring all multi-disciplinary teams/nursing staff have access to the up to date information in relation to the care of the patient is made on daily basis.
  • Word/text processing, transcription from digital dictation, admission summaries, discharge summaries, Mental Health Review Tribunals, Hospital Managers reports and any ad hoc requirements of the team.
  • Responsibility for producing a variety of confidential and sensitive correspondence relating to patients.
  • To attend a variety of meetings and take minutes, as directed by the Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Manager or Administration Manager and also to provide cover in the absence of colleagues.
  • Taking receipt of referrals to the medical team, recording and action as appropriate.

Skills Required

  • RIO, AMSPAR, Administration NVQ level III trained
  • Medical Secretary Experience
  • Strong excel experience


Benefit of Service Care Solutions

  • Excellent pay rates
  • Exceptional referral bonuses
  • Approved supplier to over 400 organizations nationwide
  • Nationwide provider to over 40 different NHS trust & private organisations
  • Subsidised training/ FREE mandatory training
  • Dedicated and experienced one-to-one consultant support
  • DBS checks provided via online services free of charge
  • Frequent notifications for upcoming opportunities via text and email

If this role sounds of interest to you please send your CV over to harry.greenhalgh@servicecare.org.uk or call on 01772 208953.
Full job spec on request