Medical Secretary & General Administration

Medical Secretary & General Administration

This is your opportunity to take on an exciting and challenging role allowing career growth and development within NGHT.

It will deliver 'on the job' training of all the multi-disciplined tasks undertaken within the Anaesthetics, Theatres, Critical Care and Chronic Pain Services department.

This opportunity is not all about typing, it will provide the right person with a range of transferable skills within a healthcare setting.

The role will provide administration support to the Pre Op Assessment team, Pain Management team, Anaesthetics Obstetrics Team & Consultants & Trainee's within the department.

The role will also involve supporting Directorate Management Meetings with the preparation of meetings and minute taking.

Secretarial or an administration background in a busy environment will be an asset. Microsoft Office Suite skills, including Excel, typing, strong attention to detail and follow through, are a must in this diverse role. We require a friendly, hardworking, and enthusiastic person with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills. You will have the ability to communicate well with staff, and be able to demonstrate experience of working under pressure and to deadlines.

You will demonstrate flexibility and the ability to prioritise workload to support the existing Admin Team, providing cross-cover and for any member of the administrative team during periods of sickness or leave.

If you are a pro‑active person with a strong service focus, take pride and ownership in your contribution, have excellent attention to detail and want to be part of an organisation which offers lots of opportunities then this could be your next long‑term role.

If this sounds like the 'Challenge you have been looking for', why not come along to meet the team and find out a little more about the variety of the role before registering your application.

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Integrity

Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.

The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Provide a comprehensive clinical secretarial service to the Clinical (Consultants & Matrons) and Senior Administrative Teams to enable them to carry out their duties in an effective and efficient manner and ensure efficiency in patient care.

Ensure all correspondence for the Clinical and Senior Administrative Teams, including clinical letters, discharge summaries, medico‑legal reports and results, minutes of meetings etc are typed and dispatched promptly. This may involve reading reports over the telephone. Some of the correspondence will be audio typing.

Provide the focal point of communication for all medical, professional and allied medical staff, both within this Trust and with external organisations, and patients, using judgment to facilitate a successful outcome of all enquiries.

Deal with telephone and face to face enquiries from patients,…