Job Overview
The Histology Department of Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services, based at Frimley Park Hospital, is seeking a motivated, well-organised, and methodical individual to join our dedicated administration team. This role will provide essential secretarial and administrative support to ensure the smooth running of the department and delivery of a high-quality service.
You will play a key part in supporting the team to meet national histology turnaround times, using your strong organisational skills to manage competing priorities effectively. The successful candidate will be flexible, proactive, and confident in using their initiative to maintain efficiency within a busy and fast-paced environment.
Main duties of the job
Your main duties will involve audio typing of histology reports, dealing with a variety of administration tasks, and assisting the Consultant Histopathologists.
Experience of Medical terminology, especially pathological terminology, will be an advantage but full training will be given to the successful candidate.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- Responsible for the production of histology reports by audio typing to meet departmental and national turnaround times.
- Manage own workload, demonstrate efficient organisation and oversee the smooth effective operation of the office.
- To work autonomously within a team; providing full organisational support to the consultant’s and their team.
- To ensure procedures and working practices are in place so that the specialty
- Trust can deliver a service that meets the standards and targets that have been set.
- To provide a considerate, patient focused service in all dealings with staff around the hospital and throughout the whole system.
- The department provides a service for Surrey Pathology Services across all sites.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad knowledge of medical terminology, acquired through previous job experience
- Experience of working in a large, complex organisation and a multi-disciplinary environment
- Experience of using patient administration systems
- Experience of mentoring, training or supervising others
- Working knowledge of a range of software packages e.g. MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint and other locally used databases e.g. Pathology Laboratory information system (WinPath) or similar
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Be able to prioritise own work effectively
- Ability to problem solve
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good general standard of education to GCSE level or equivalent including English
- RSA II or equivalent in word processing/audio typing
Desirable criteria
- RSA III, Medical secretarial qualification (BSMS certificate) or equivalent
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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