The purpose of this job is to be responsible for providing a full secretarial and PA service to the Cardiology Department.
The role involves working for Consultants and their team, typing clinical correspondence, reports, etc using the digital system, general administrative duties within the Cardiology team, but there may need to be flexibility in working throughout the Medical Division as service needs require.
- To provide a comprehensive secretarial service to consultants, visiting consultants, junior medical doctors and clinical nurse specialists.
- To supervise and take responsibility for assistant medical secretaries and departmental clerk.
- To ensure all referrals are date stamped with date of arrival and entered on to waiting list daily.
- To monitor e-Referral system daily, print referrals for Consultant’s approval, accept/change referrals as appropriate.
- To ensure all referrals are graded by consultant and appointments booked according to clinical need, in chronological order adhering to clinic booking rules.
- To ensure EPR (Electronic Patient Record System) data is correct at all times adhering to 18 week waiting time guidance.
- To be responsible for waiting list management for inpatients and outpatients.
- Understanding and adherence to the Trust’s Patient Access Policy, with particular focus on RTT and cancer performance standards.
- To support and participate in the introduction and development of AI transcription systems.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT , George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust .
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “ The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential. ”
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
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