Medical Secretary - Family History

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Breast Surgery Department as a Medical Secretary.

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication and organization skills, strong typing skills and knowledge of medical terminology to ensure provision of a high quality and efficient administrative/secretarial service to the Family History Consultants and their team.

Your role will also involve assisting in the management of referral to treatment (RTT) and cancer pathways; working with the management and clinical teams to ensure delays are resolved and pathways are managed appropriately.

You must have good attention to detail together with the ability to prioritise your own workload to meet deadlines. Duties will include dealing with telephone enquiries, letters, email, diaries, chasing deadlines, collation of information/results for reports and typing of clinic letters.

You should have previous secretarial experience as well as being flexible and able to work as part of a team. In return we will provide a comprehensive induction with a view to developing knowledge and skills where appropriate.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide medical transcription and administrative support on attachment to clinical teams; guided by standard operating procedures.

Proof reading letters to patients, GPs, medical staff and any other required addressee following clinic attendance, ward discharge and other patient contacts.

Carry out administrative instructions that are dictated in the letters transcribed e.g. chasing results.

Undertake routine office duties including electronic case note tracking, photocopying, scanning and uploading correspondence and results and maintenance of records when required.

Provide cover in times of sickness, annual leave and staff shortages.

Deal with telephone communications and patient queries.

Liaise with relevant departments where necessary.

About us

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.