Medical Secretary Upper GI Unit

Job summary

To provide a comprehensive secretarial and administrative service to the Consultant and their team in the Upper GI Department.

To produce clinic letters and documents, collect and collate investigations.

To respond efficiently and effectively to telephone queries from patients, parents/guardians and other health care professionals.

To work independently, prioritising and managing own workload quickly and accurately, responding to the needs of the department.

To offer secretarial support to the admin team when other staff members are away

Main duties of the job

Patient/Client care - contact with patients by telephone offering non-clinical advice.

Responsibility for Information Resources - use of hospital information systems to generate patient letter - use of results reporting system to look up test results.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk