Medical Secretary/ Higher Medical Secretary inMiddlesbrough inMiddlesbrough PUBLISHED
FRI 18 OCT 2024
Applicants should possess prior medical secretarial experience, strong IT skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, and excellent communication and organisational abilities. The role demands flexibility, initiative, and the ability to work under pressure, prioritizing workloads effectively. The Trust offers various training programs to enhance leadership and management skills for new staff members, fostering professional development within the organisation.
37.5 Hours per week
This role is to work Monday to Friday on site, within the core hours of 08.00 - 17.00 (7.5 hours per day).
Department - Paediatrics
Post holders will be appointed at band 3 or band 4 depending upon previous experience as laid out in the Trust's development framework for medical secretaries. The framework 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 4.
We are looking for an experienced secretary to join the clinical administration and clerical teams at The James Cook University Hospital. The post is available within the Paediatric Department. This offers excellent opportunities for enthusiastic and conscientious people to provide a comprehensive medical secretarial service to consultants, junior medical and specialist nursing staff in an efficient and timely manner, assisting in the organisation of their workload and contributing to the overall success of the service.
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.
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.
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