Medical Secretary

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Job Overview

The post is a job share amounting to 21.5 hours per week Wednesday to Friday.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced secretary to join the Chemical Pathology Department. This post covers a range of administrative tasks to maintain a prompt and accurate secretarial service. You will be working closely with the Lead Chemical Pathologist and her team.

You must have the ability to produce efficient and accurate typing and will therefore have previous secretarial experience. You will have excellent keyboard and audio typing skills and be proficient in the use of Microsoft packages, including Word, Excel and Outlook. You will be required to use the WPAS and Clinical Work Station (CWS) to organise and book patients into clinics for which you will receive training.

Main duties of the job

The ability to prioritise your work and be highly organised is paramount to this post as is excellent interpersonal communication skills, which includes a friendly telephone manner, whilst also providing a professional, sensitive manner and maintaining confidentiality at all times.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Qualifications And Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Keyboard skills to RSA III or equivalent secretarial experience
• Maths and English GCSE
• Computer literate with good understanding of software programmes
• Basic knowledge of medical terminology
• Knowledge of secretarial and administrative procedures and systems

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of using CWS
• WelshPAS trained

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in an administration or secretarial post

Desirable criteria

• Management of Waiting Lists

Aptitude and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Possess excellent communication/telephone skills
• Ability to work with staff at all level

Desirable criteria

• Time management skills
• Attention to detail

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to be independently mobile to meet the requirements of the service
• Ability to work on his/her own initiative in an often pressured and fast moving environment