Job Description

The post is to provide a comprehensive, confidential secretarial and administrative support service to one of our extremely busy Cardiology Consultants, to enable them to carry out their duties in an effective and efficient manner and ensure efficiency in patient care.
In addition the post holder will provide cross cover for the secretaries during periods of staff absence within the department as and when required.
You will need previous medical secretary experience, outstanding organizational and communication skills; work well with staff and the public and must be able to demonstrate experience of working under pressure and to set deadlines.
Provide a full and comprehensive Medical Secretarial Service, including timely audio typing of clinic letters, discharge summaries, letters, documents/presentations, compilation of letters as required by the consultant(s) and respective team(s). This may involve correction of incorrect grammar and interpretation of different pronunciations and handwritten clinical notes or advance medical terminology.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities