Job Description

Our Trust

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has been rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and our staff tell us that we are a great place to work.

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people.

At East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, we provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. East Surrey Hospital is also the nearest trauma unit for Gatwick Airport.

We are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has given us an outstanding rating
• SASH are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
• Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; SASH is well above the national average for overall staff engagement
• We are one of the safest hospitals in the country according to CQC’s intelligent monitoring
• Up to 96% of people surveyed would recommend us to their friends and family
• We are a National Patient Safety Awards Winner
• SASH has one of the lowest levels of nursing vacancies in the country

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 4 Medical Secretary to join the Medical Team at East Surrey Hospital. The purpose of this role is to deliver a comprehensive and effective secretarial and administrative service. This is a busy and varied position and you will be supporting the AMU/Kingsfold Department with 14 consultants and their clinical teams alongside the specialist nurses and visiting consultants with support from secretarial colleagues.

The successful candidate will need to be highly motivated and able to work in a very pressurised environment. The successful candidate must be able to prioritise their own workload effectively and possess excellent organisational and communication skills. Team working is essential for cover arrangements between the cardiology secretarial team alongside cover arrangements across the various clinical services within the medicine division.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The successful candidate will need to be highly motivated and able to work in a very pressurised environment. The successful candidate must be able to prioritise their own workload effectively and possess excellent organisational and communication skills. Team working is essential for cover arrangements between the cardiology secretarial team alongside cover arrangements across the various clinical services within the medicine division.