Personal Medical Secretary

You will be part of the Administration Team based at Hollins Park in Warrington. The newly formed team will work together to support each other in order to provide an effective administration service that supports the Consultants working into the Auden Unit and SCFT. You will be responsible for supporting the Consultants and the Clinical Teams who support our inpatient and outpatients services. It is a busy role; the successful candidate will need to have excellent organisational skills and be able to prioritise workloads on a daily basis due to competing deadlines.

You will work closely alongside your colleagues who will guide and assist you in preparing for audits and any reports that need submitting. Previous experience is essential to enable the post holder to successfully get systems and processes up and running to support the Consultants.

Can all applicants please ensure that you do have certificates for any of the qualifications you include on your application form, you will need to evidence these as part of the recruitment process. Please do not note any qualifications that you cannot provide certificates.

As an experienced Medical PA, you will have an understanding of medical terminology and managing busy Consultants’ diaries to maximise use of their time. You will be responsible for typing a wide variety of documentation from both manuscript and transcription recordings. You will be required to arrange internal and external meetings/visits, which may include the booking of venues and hotels.

Taking comprehensive minutes is an integral part of the role, you must be competent in taking live minutes in meetings/ward rounds/MDTs, preparing for your meetings in advance, chase up outstanding actions, ensure that all clinical information is uploaded on to the clinical recording system in a timely manner, to support the Consultants’

You will be required to liaise with external agencies including: Mental Health Review Tribunal Offices; other Secure Units; Social Services; Probation Services, Home Office and HM Prison Service.

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: Teresa Colbon Job title: Capacity and Flow Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0151 459 5625