Medical Secretary - Derry

Our public sector Client seeks a Full-time Secretary in Derry. This is an excellent opportunity to get your foot in the door with a public sector body.

Hours- Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

Rate of pay £12.86

Duties:

• To provide a secretarial and administrative service to Consultant Medical Staff or group of Medical Consultants and their teams as required ensuring efficiency in patient care.
• Manage the Consultants/Team diary to ensure effective time management.
• To act as a point of contact for all forms of communication between the Consultant, patients, relatives, all hospital staff, General Practitioners and their staff and outside agencies.
• Effectively deal with telephone calls from patients, relatives, hospital staff and General Practitioners and other individuals or organizations, taking messages, ensuring follow-up and resolving any problems as appropriate
• To type and process clinic and discharge letters using audio dictation, and/or word processing methods as required, and ensure all follow up actions are completed in accordance with local policies and procedures.
• Access and bring forward PAS, laboratory and radiology results and take responsibility for passing the information on to the relevant medical staff in a timely manner.

Essential Criteria:

Private and Executive Secretary’s Certificate / Diploma or Diploma for Medical Secretaries or equivalent
OR
OCR Stage 2 Text Processing (Part 1) & Stage 2 Word processing/Typing (Part 2) or equivalent

AND EITHER

OCR Stage II Audio OR 80 wpm Shorthand or equivalent
In addition to one of the above applicants must have:
1 year’s administrative / clerical experience

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