Band 4 Medical Secretary / Supervisor - Urology

Job summary

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band 4 full-time Medical Secretary Supervisor (37.5hrs per week) to join our friendly secretarial team within the Urology Department at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. The post will be based on Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham site.

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who relishes a challenge and is keen to use their own initiative. The successful candidate will be required to be a key member of the Secretarial Team, providing a professional and high quality secretarial (including minute taking) and administrative service at all times. There is a lot of audio typing within this role along with a lot of medical terminology, therefore the successful candidate will need experience in this field.

You will be required to work to a high standard of accuracy and be able to demonstrate initiative in planning your own workload in a way that supports the consultants and the wider team. Our admin team is a part of a busy department and each consultant requiring a proactive secretary to manage their day-to-day admin, booking admissions/appointments, importing documentation to electronic patient records, audio typing letters, liaising with patients and colleagues both internally and externally. They must be willing to assist the consultant and the department in providing the best possible care to our patient and service users in line with our trust values and mission statement

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone with a minimum of 2 years medical secretarial experience, excellent touch-typing and audio typing skills, a good knowledge of medical terminology, a good working knowledge of the RTT pathway, experience with managing waiting lists, and someone who is a team player but has the initiative to complete their individual tasks in a timely manner.

We would like the successful candidate to be pro-active, approachable and supportive to both patient and colleagues, to have a conscientious approach to their work, and ability to demonstrate administrative experience and be able to meet the main duties of the role as identified in the job description.

You must possess excellent organisational skills and be experienced in dealing with confidential information.

The successful candidate will have a good standard of English and Maths and ideally possess an AMSPAR/medical terminology qualification/RSA III qualification (or equivalent). Secretarial, minute taking and audio typing experience are also essential. The candidate should also be able to demonstrate confidence in using MS Office as well as other IT systems.

We are a supportive, friendly team who look forward to welcoming the successful candidate into our team.

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. For more information, please contact: Michelle Price on 0121 371 5737.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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