Cardiology Medical Secretary - Band 3

Job summary

This post can be carried out from any of our ULTH Main sites at Boston Pilgrim, Lincoln County or Grantham Hospital.

Patient administration underpins the patient journey and supports clinical teams in delivering high quality patient care and can make a real difference to the patient experience. Effective and efficient patient administration supports management through ensuring a high standard of data quality and by making the best use of capacity and resources. The Medical Secretary is pivotal in achieving effective patient administration.

Main duties of the job

Deal with urgent and routine correspondence and tasks in accordance with agreed practice and CQUIN standards including transcription from digital dictation, for the Consultant's team, which may include outpatient reports, operation notes and other relevant clinical and non clinical correspondence.

Maintain accurate 18 week referral to treatment (RTT) pathway for patients. Following validation be responsible for accurate and timely recording, reporting exceptions to senior personnel

Works with Choice & Access to arrange clinics cancellations, ensuring clear instructions are given to re-appointing patients, escalating capacity issues to the Specialty Co-ordinator.

Open and prioritise correspondence on behalf of Consultant ensuring that urgent correspondence receives prompt attention.

Ensures patient pathways are updated to minimise validation and data quality issues. When required will assist in the validation of patient pathways working with the Specialty

Receive, manage and prioritise telephone and personal enquires, complaints, messages and information from patients, relatives, General Practitioners, Consultants and other medical staff and external organisations on behalf of Consultant and clinical team.

Manage patient investigation results. Responsible for chasing up missing results. Maintain systems for monitoring and retrieving outstanding investigations. Maintain Consultant's diary.

About us

Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).