Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Leyland, Lancashire | United Kingdom
Job description
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, Psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
For more information about Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Trust is a great place to work and has a sound future as a leading provider of excellent mental health and a newly acquired Perinatal Service. The Trust invests in its staff and seeks to provide them with opportunities for training and personal development.
Applications are invited for a medical secretary to provide support to the Specialist Perinatal Service based at Leyland House, Leyland, this will also include providing remote cover for other medical secretaries across the localities, covering sickness and annual leave. The Secretary will be expected to utilise a range of technical skills, which may include, audio tape transcription, and medical terminology. They will also be expected to employ highly effective interpersonal and communication skills and will be required to work frequently without direct supervision. The post holder will be required to work flexibly in response of the needs of the Network.
The Secretary is a key member of the Specialist Perinatal Team. He/she will assist in the provision of effective and efficient services to clients by providing a comprehensive professional secretarial and administrative service to a team of multiple disciplines, liaising effectively wherever necessary with other team members and external agencies. The interests of the client are paramount.
In order to carry out the duties to a professional standard, the Secretary will be expected to utilise a range of technical skills which may include word processing, use of email and other IT skills, audio tape transcription and medical/pharmacological terminology. He/she will also be expected to employ highly effective interpersonal and communication skills and will be required to work frequently without direct supervision. The confidential nature of all work concerning patients must be understood and safeguarded and the particular sensitivities to mental health issues respected.
The post holder will be required to cover for absent colleagues when and where necessary for short periods of time such as annual leave and short-term sickness.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Please note that further communication from Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCFT to contact them.
Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts. For all posts which require a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure & Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).You are advised to consider applying for LSCFT vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Care is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (especially those with experience of accessing mental health, or Learning Disability Services or caring for someone who has accessed mental health services or Learning Disability Services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. The organisation is proud to be listed as one of the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers and our HR department holds the Lancashire LGBT Quality Mark. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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£25.15k - £27.6k per annum
