Luminal Pathway Support (Support Medical Secretary)

This is a 12 month Fixed Term/Secondment position.

The Luminal Department at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are seeking to recruit an ambitious and highly organised Support Medical Secretary to provide an efficient service to the Clinical Team within the Gastroenterology Department at the Royal Derby Hospital.

You will need to be an enthusiastic and motivated team player with excellent communication and problem solving skills. You will require a high level of tact, diplomacy with the ability to prioritise your own workload effectively.

If you are applying for an Internal Secondment, please ensure you have spoken to your line manager and have their support prior to your application. Please speak to the Recruitment Team if you have any questions.

You will have a broad range of administrative skills in particular:

• Previous experience in an administrative or customer service role
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• An understanding of the 18-week RTT process
• Knowledge of the Trust Patient Access Policy
• Knowledge and familiarisation of medical terminology
• Excellent organisational and communication skills
• Knowledge of Word, Excel, Internet and email systems
• Accurate typing skills
• Audio typing
  
  

Closing Date: 16 January 2025

Interview Date: 30 January 2025

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
  
  

Key Facts About Our Trust

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jordane Hardwick Job title: Operational Co-Ordinator Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07471140617

Jenny Wilkinson

Secretary | Team Leader - Telephone number 01332 786981 or email [email protected]