Support Medical Secretary

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Moss house CMHT, Liverpool, for a highly motivated and enthusiastic part time Support Medical Secretary to join our Administrative Team supporting the Out patient team

The post holder will provide a comprehensive and professional secretarial support service to an excellent standard, ensuring a high level of accuracy to the Mental Health Care Division.

The post holder is expected to work closely with the services to type clinical correspondence in a timely manner to to achieve KPIs.

The post holder will be expected to work with a flexible approach, maintaining confidentiality at all times when dealing with service user/staff information.

The post holder should have a good working knowledge of medical terminology and a willingness to expand on that knowledge to provide

support to different specialities.

The post holder will be able to demonstrate flexibility and use own initiative to carry out duties in such a way as to make a direct and positive contribution to the organisation, thus enabling the medical team to utilise their time in an efficient manner.

The post holder will provide a comprehensive professional support secretarial service to an excellent standard ensuring a high level of accuracy to the Mental Health Care Division.

Successful applicants will be able to organise their own workload and co-ordinate workload activities with other Medical Secretaries in the team.

Th

e successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and a friendly telephone manner.

There is a need to be able to work to tight deadlines and withstand the pressure of a busy department and it is essential that you are able to work on your own

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Joanne Healy Job title: Administration Ma

nager Email address: Joanne.Healy@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07423 787353