medical transcriptionist Liverpool, England
Job description
Band 4
An opportunity has arisen for a motivated personal medical secretary to join our administrative team within the Orthopaedics Department based at Broadgreen Hospital in Kent Lodge.
It is expected that all applicants will have previous experience of working in the NHS within a medical secretarial role and will possess a secretarial qualification, extensive understanding and knowledge of medical terminology and audio typing skills.
The successful candidate must be able to undertake all administrative duties including diary management, be well organised, plan own workload and work on own initiative working to strict guidelines, both individually and as part of the wider team.
You will be expected to be a team player and cover for your colleagues during absences.
To provide a comprehensive service to the consultants and speciality teams, with the minimum of supervision. Organise your own workload and co-ordinate activities with other medical secretaries to ensure that an efficient service is provided. It is essential that you show initiative commensurate
with the role and it is vital that confidentiality should be maintained at all times. Ensure cross cover working where possible.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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To provide a comprehensive service to consultants and speciality teams including nurse practitioners/clinicians.
Keep diary up to date, arrange appointments, and arrange travel and accommodation.
Operate an effective bring forward system and filing system.
To manage and maintain 18 week pathways including tertiary referrals to external trusts, and ensure these are accurately recorded on PAS system.
Keep track of referrals to ensure patient is reviewed promptly. Check that follow up appointments are arranged in conjunction with Referral to Treat (RTT) patient pathway.
Mentor, train and supervise relevant staff as required. Deal with annual leave requests and sickness absence return to work interviews.
Support consultants in non-clinical activities role by preparing presentation documents, using relevant packages and arranging meetings, set agenda, circulate agenda/supporting papers as appropriate and take minutes at meetings.
Ensure appropriate personnel are informed of consultant annual leave/study leave. Keep consultants informed of junior doctor leave, as it could have an effect on the service.
Organise and maintain consultant’s admissions. Cancel and add patients to the waiting list, as appropriate, ensuring lists are updated, and patients contacted.
Liaise with waiting list office, anaesthetic department and ward. Complete and amend theatre lists appropriately.
Type dictation from audio transcription of clinical correspondence and documentation. Type discharge summaries as appropriate. Maintain an effective track on inpatient referrals to ensure patient is reviewed promptly.
Check against clinical letters to ensure appropriate follow up arrangements/investigations are in place. Rectify if not. Allocate and check the work of other staff.
