Medical Secretary
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Job summary
37.5 Hours per week
This role is to work Monday to Friday 09.00 - 17.00 (7.5 hours per day).
The Pathology Departments at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust are working collaboratively to develop a joint service with services being delivered on both hospital sites, this will require cross site working as appropriate.
The post holder will provide a comprehensive, effective and professional administrative and secretarial support to the collaborative team.
Post holders will be appointed at band 3. As laid out in the Trust's development framework for medical secretaries provides a clear progression to allow post holders to progress from band 3 to band 4 within the post subject to formal evaluation in role (this would take 18 months to progress from band 3 to band 4.
We are looking for an experienced secretary to join the Administration and Clerical team at The James Cook University Hospital. The post is available within the Pathology Department. This offers excellent opportunities for enthusiastic and conscientious people to provide a comprehensive medical secretarial service to consultants,and the wider Pathology team in an efficient and timely manner, assisting in the organisation of their workload and contributing to the overall success of the service.
Main duties of the job
You will have previous medical secretarial and administrative experience, preferably in a health care setting. It is essential that you have strong IT skills, a good level of general education, an extensive knowledge of Office and Outlook (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email and internet) along with advanced typing/word processing qualifications/skills.
You will have excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills. It's important that you are flexible, able to act on your own initiative and work both independently and as part of a team. You must be able to work under pressure to tight deadlines and prioritise workloads as well as being positive and enthusiastic.
This vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the New and Aspiring leaders programme, and the Foundation Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. After you complete this one and a half day of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3, 5 and 7.
Details
Date posted
22 January 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,071 to £29,114 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
328-CD-6874259
Job locations
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Employer details
Employer name
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Employer's website
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