Job responsibilities
Do you have administration experience and are looking to step into a new role? Join Chadwick Lodge as a Medical Secretary and enjoy a career where you are valued and supported to be the best you can be.
Working 37.5 hours a week, you will be responsible for providing administrative support to medical team at Chadwick Lodge. From managing their diaries, planning meetings to updating records, you will be able to turn your hand to any admin related task.
As the Medical Secretary, you will work alongside the Registered Clinicians assisting with confidential paperwork, service users records and GP letters. You will liaise with external agencies to get up-to-date information on service users and GP letters.
You will liaise with external agencies to get up-to-date information on service users and keep the electronic record system up to date.
There’s also a huge range of courses on offer to help grow and develop your career. If you have the aspiration, capability and dedication, Elysium Healthcare can give you the support and opportunities to help you achieve your career goals.
As a Medical Secretary you will be:
- Supporting the Registered Clinician with letters and general documentation
- Receiving and record typing, checking, and amending for spelling and grammatical errors, completing within given deadlines.
- Participating in the administration, development and evaluation of regulatory matters.
- Co-ordinating the Consultants diary and the whereabouts of the clinicians
- Booking in meetings
- Arranging Conference Calls
- Keeping the Electronic Record System up to date with all statutory meetings
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Previous Admin experience, preferable as a Medical Secretary
- IT skills including Microsoft Office
- Experience of audio typing
- Communication and organisational skills
- A minimum of 4 GCSEs or equivalent
- Knowledge of mental health and medications
Where you will be working:
Location: Chadwick Drive (off Saxon Street), Eaglestone, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 5LS
You will be working at Chadwick Lodge and Eaglestone View, a medium and low secure services providing specialist treatment programmes for service users who have been detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) and have a history of offending behaviour.
The service offer a broad spectrum of evidence-based therapeutic interventions, involving service users at every stage. The hospital’s consultant-led multidisciplinary team has a wealth of clinical and research experience in forensic psychiatry. All programmes are designed to reduce the risk of re-offending and to maximise the potential and enhance the quality of life of each service users.
Chadwick Lodge secure services care for service users with complex and enduring mental illness who need to achieve stability in order to benefit from multidisciplinary interventions, helping them move on to community settings whenever possible
What you will get:
- Annual salary of £26,784
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
- Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
- Pension contribution to secure your future.
- Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
- Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
