Medical Secretary - Radiology

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We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Support Medical Secretary to join our expanding team in the Radiology Department.

It is expected that applicants will have appropriate experience of working in a medical environment and also demonstrate a background of working in an office environment with the ability to liaise with all the relevant departments within the Trust.

Being a team player is essential together with first-rate organisational skills.

• Working as part of a team to provide secretarial support to the Radiology Department
• Working across all specialties to ensure timely despatch of Radiology reports to General Practitioners and Consultants on a timely basis.

ersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

• We are Kind
• We are Open
• We are Inclusive

• NVQ III or equivalent experience
• RSA II/III Typing or word processing
• Knowledge of medical terminology
• Audio typing

• AMSPAR Diploma
• European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)

• Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people, both internal and external
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of Data Protection
• Flexible working approach
• Ability to plan and organise own workload to meet targets
• Customer Service skills