Medical Secretary

Reference

PRI81263

Location

Woodbourne Priory Hospital, 21 Woodbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B17 8BY

Priory Group Division

Healthcare

Vacancy Type

Permanent - Full Time, Permanent - Part Time

Salary

£22,000

Hours

37.5 hours Full time and Part time available

Job Advert Role Description

Medical Secretary

Permanent 37.5hours per week, we're also looking on a part time basis for 30 hours per week.

Job involves working as part of a medical secretarial team to provide secretarial and administrative support to the Consultants  

The successful candidate will have significant proven experience with excellent organisational and communication skills. You will provide an efficient and professional secretarial service ensuring business processes are effectively and resourcefully managed to support the delivery of a quality care service. A varied role, tasks will involve working with and supporting consultants, arranging internal and external meetings, diary management, minute-taking, preparing meeting notes, copy and audio typing experience, collation and input of data, proofreading documents, dealing with medical records requests and general administration.

Job involves working as part of a Medical Secretary team to provide secretarial support to Consultants:

To provide a complete confidential general and medical secretarial service for the consultants and their team
Proven experience with excellent organisational, planning and communication skills within a secretarial function
Responsible for the organisation of internal and external meetings, preparation of agendas and taking minutes of meetings
Copy and audiotyping (desirable)
Knowledge of various Microsoft office software including outlook, word, PowerPoint (desirable), Excel, Carenotes (patient database)
Dealing with medical records requests, ie redacting, scanning and able to meet deadlines
Diary management
Collation and input of data
Archiving of patient records
Filing, photocopying
To sort, distribute and prioritise e-mails, using judgement and experience
Excellent telephone manner
Receiving of complex information.  To exercise initiative and judgement based on acquired knowledge and experience when dealing with enquiries of a clinical and non-clinical nature

Division DBS info

About us

As one of the UK’s leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services, Priory promise a challenging and fulfilling career with the support of a world class organisation willing to invest in your development. 

Across our network of hospitals, residential care homes and supported living services, we are making a real and lasting difference to the lives of the people we support.

Priory maintains that vaccination remains our very best line of defence against COVID-19 and believes that our colleagues working with vulnerable individuals have a professional duty to be vaccinated.  As part of our wider infection control efforts, and to meet our commissioner and customer requirements, we continue to record vaccination status for all colleagues and we therefore request that you disclose this information as part of your application. Your vaccination status will not affect any offer of employment and will be held in line with GDPR requirements.  We thank you for your understanding. 

Disclosure

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.

Closing Date

30/09/2023