{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nMedical Secretary with Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust in Brighton, England, United Kingdom\n\nWe require a skilled, supportive and efficient Medical Secretary to join our friendly, but busy multi-disciplinary Diabetes Care for You service that supports patients living with diabetes across Brighton and Hove and High Weald, Lewes and Havens. Working as a small team of medical secretaries, you will provide an effective secretarial service for our Diabetes Consultants and doctors on rotation, in order to deliver an excellent service for our patients. You must have good organisational and communication skills, be able to work under pressure and on your own initiative and follow directions. You must be able to solve problems and be engaged in service development for both the administrative and clinical processes to maximise efficiencies and ensure an excellent patient experience. The community diabetes service is a multi-disciplinary team that includes Consultants, Diabetes Specialist Nurses, Dietitians, Podiatrists and Psychotherapists along with administrative and operational teams. Our aim is to help to improve health outcomes for people living with diabetes, and will meet the needs of the growing diabetes population across Brighton and Hove, and High Weald, Lewes and the Havens, both by providing interventions to people with diabetes and increasing the level of skills and knowledge within primary care. Working alongside another medical secretary you will provide a comprehensive secretarial / personal assistant role to the Consultants and Doctors on rotation. This includes audio typing letters, referrals, reports etc, working to deadlines in order to support our patients. The ability to organise and prioritise work effectively is essential as is the ability to accurately and quickly touch-type. Experience of audio typing, computer skills and medical terminology is required although previous work experience as a medical secretary is not essential for the right person. You will have an excellent telephone manner and able to prioritise competing demands, meeting deadlines throughout the week. The goal of the service is to enable patients to access education, information, advice and support to enable them to make informed choices about how to manage their condition, so that they can stay as well as possible for as long as possible and reduce their risk of diabetes related complications. Joint care planning and goal setting is a focus of our delivery model with patients in control and empowered to self-manage. We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children. Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times. We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services. Why work for us? Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options Excellent training and development opportunities Research opportunities Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA) Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Charlotte Plant Job title: Operational Support Officer Email address: charlotte.plant3@nhs.net Telephone number: 07484 404039 Kim Preece Operational Lead Kim.preece@nhs.net"}