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You can also look at our recruitment flipbook, an interactive brochure showcasing various entry-level roles. It includes a fun quiz to help you find the right role and links to more information about our hospitals and our fantastic staff.
Main area: Breast Grade: Band 3 Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover Ends on 05/01/2026) Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref: 438-PB2095-A
Site: Chorley and South Ribble Hospital Town: Chorley Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 Per annum/Pro Rata Salary period: Yearly Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59 Interview date: 27/01/2025
Job overview Would you like to work as part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other and create the best patient experience that you can? If the answer is yes, then we would love to hear from you!
A fabulous new opportunity for a Support Secretary for Breast Services has arisen within the Women’s & Children’s Division at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals based at Chorley & District Hospital.
You will be a member of a team of support medical secretaries providing secretarial and administrative support to consultants, junior medical staff and any other staff. You will support the efficient channelling of communication between medical staff, GPs, patients, relatives, members of the public and other disciplines within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
Be the point of contact for all day-to-day inquiries, referring where necessary to more senior staff.
Provide administrative and secretarial support to consultants and specialist nurses.
You will often be the first point of contact for patients and clinicians and will be expected to work independently using your own initiative with minimal direct supervision.
Manage electronic calendars for consultants, organizing meetings and minuting meetings as and when required.
Accurate maintenance of an electronic diary with effective communication of diary commitments.
Coordinate meetings at the request of the specialty. This occasionally requires arranging venues and refreshments for off-site meetings.
Chase progress on all issues with appropriate manager on behalf of the specialty and when necessary to ensure that deadlines are met.
Maintain efficient and effective administrative systems including bring forward, and message taking.
Ensure files and papers are available and up-to-date, providing briefings for the day’s activities, highlighting deadlines and potential conflicts of interest.
Attend meetings in order to take minutes and produce/distribute documentation as required.
Organize meetings as required, to include preparation of agendas and minute-taking, coordinating follow-up action as required to ensure that decisions/recommendations are implemented.
Provide secretarial and administrative support when other members of the team are absent.
Use databases and computer packages where appropriate to initiate and maintain records and generate statistics for analytical purposes.
Accurately transcribe correspondence and reports by touch typing from audio dictation using knowledge of medical terminology. Daily use of TPRO (digital dictation).
Coordinate and liaise with Junior Medical staff and distribute all appropriate medical staff rotas (where necessary).
Utilization of local or Trust case note tracking system.
Person specification Qualifications
Good general education. Minimum GCSE English and Mathematics grade A-C
RSA 3 typing Qualification
ECDL or equivalent experience
Audio typing speed of 60 wpm
Knowledge & Experience
Efficient use of Microsoft, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email and intranet
Able to manage own workload and work autonomously as part of a team.
Experienced and competent minute taking
Knowledge of medical terminology
Demonstrate a commitment to continuing personal and professional development
Previous admin experience in NHS environment
Use of Trust IT packages i.e. Flex, TPRO, Evolve
Advanced knowledge of medical terminology
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.
To support you in your application process, we’ve created a What we can offer you guide that shows what you can expect when you join our hospitals. The guide includes links to our strategic aims and objectives as well as our values, development support and rewards and benefits. To help you get the best from your application we’ve also put together two guides to help you make your application the best it can be.
We recognise that the recruitment process may present barriers for some and you may need personal adjustments to enable you to participate in our recruitment process. Please make contact with the recruitment team at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
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You can also look at our recruitment flipbook, an interactive brochure showcasing various entry-level roles. It includes a fun quiz to help you find the right role and links to more information about our hospitals and our fantastic staff.
Main area: Breast Grade: Band 3 Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover Ends on 05/01/2026) Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref: 438-PB2095-A
Site: Chorley and South Ribble Hospital Town: Chorley Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 Per annum/Pro Rata Salary period: Yearly Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59 Interview date: 27/01/2025
Job overview Would you like to work as part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other and create the best patient experience that you can? If the answer is yes, then we would love to hear from you!
A fabulous new opportunity for a Support Secretary for Breast Services has arisen within the Women’s & Children’s Division at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals based at Chorley & District Hospital.
You will be a member of a team of support medical secretaries providing secretarial and administrative support to consultants, junior medical staff and any other staff. You will support the efficient channelling of communication between medical staff, GPs, patients, relatives, members of the public and other disciplines within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
Be the point of contact for all day-to-day inquiries, referring where necessary to more senior staff.
Provide administrative and secretarial support to consultants and specialist nurses.
You will often be the first point of contact for patients and clinicians and will be expected to work independently using your own initiative with minimal direct supervision.
Manage electronic calendars for consultants, organizing meetings and minuting meetings as and when required.
Accurate maintenance of an electronic diary with effective communication of diary commitments.
Coordinate meetings at the request of the specialty. This occasionally requires arranging venues and refreshments for off-site meetings.
Chase progress on all issues with appropriate manager on behalf of the specialty and when necessary to ensure that deadlines are met.
Maintain efficient and effective administrative systems including bring forward, and message taking.
Ensure files and papers are available and up-to-date, providing briefings for the day’s activities, highlighting deadlines and potential conflicts of interest.
Attend meetings in order to take minutes and produce/distribute documentation as required.
Organize meetings as required, to include preparation of agendas and minute-taking, coordinating follow-up action as required to ensure that decisions/recommendations are implemented.
Provide secretarial and administrative support when other members of the team are absent.
Use databases and computer packages where appropriate to initiate and maintain records and generate statistics for analytical purposes.
Accurately transcribe correspondence and reports by touch typing from audio dictation using knowledge of medical terminology. Daily use of TPRO (digital dictation).
Coordinate and liaise with Junior Medical staff and distribute all appropriate medical staff rotas (where necessary).
Utilization of local or Trust case note tracking system.
Person specification Qualifications
Good general education. Minimum GCSE English and Mathematics grade A-C
RSA 3 typing Qualification
ECDL or equivalent experience
Audio typing speed of 60 wpm
Knowledge & Experience
Efficient use of Microsoft, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email and intranet
Able to manage own workload and work autonomously as part of a team.
Experienced and competent minute taking
Knowledge of medical terminology
Demonstrate a commitment to continuing personal and professional development
Previous admin experience in NHS environment
Use of Trust IT packages i.e. Flex, TPRO, Evolve
Advanced knowledge of medical terminology
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.
To support you in your application process, we’ve created a What we can offer you guide that shows what you can expect when you join our hospitals. The guide includes links to our strategic aims and objectives as well as our values, development support and rewards and benefits. To help you get the best from your application we’ve also put together two guides to help you make your application the best it can be.
We recognise that the recruitment process may present barriers for some and you may need personal adjustments to enable you to participate in our recruitment process. Please make contact with the recruitment team at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
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