# Medical Secretary

**Company**: Priorygroup
**Location**: Manchester, Greater Manchester
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £26,300 per annum
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://jobs.priorygroup.com/en/postings/bce90ba9-919c-4712-881f-f46c8e62548b?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Priory Hospital Altrincham is seeking a Medical Secretary to join their team.

The successful candidate will provide efficient secretarial and administrative support to the hospital's Medical team.

### Key Responsibilities

- Provide secretarial and administrative support, including typing, audio-typing, minute taking, and managing correspondence.

- Coordinate diaries and patient appointments, liaising with patients, consultants, and other departments.

- Maintain accurate patient records using CareNotes, ensuring reports and documentation are uploaded, updated, and filed correctly.

- Handle telephone and email enquiries, prioritizing requests and dealing with patient and family complaints sensitively.

- Liaise with internal and external contacts, maintaining strict confidentiality and information governance standards.

### Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

#### Essential Skills

- Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Office and audio-typing.

- Understanding of medical terminology.

- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritize workload effectively.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- High attention to detail and accuracy when handling patient records and documentation.

- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality and demonstrate integrity.

- Flexible, supportive approach and ability to work effectively as part of a team.

#### Desirable Skills

- Previous experience in a medical secretarial or administrative role.

- Experience working within a healthcare or clinical environment.

- Experience dealing with patients, families, and healthcare professionals.

- Experience managing diaries, appointments, and correspondence.

- Familiarity with electronic patient record systems, particularly CareNotes.

- Experience handling sensitive enquiries and complaints professionally.

### Benefits

- Birthday holiday - your birthday as an extra day's annual leave.

- Enhanced maternity pay.

- Contributory pension scheme.

- Flexible benefits, including reduced rates and access to new schemes, such as gym membership, IT technology, and Healthcare Cash Plan.

- Access to development opportunities.

- Sponsorship of professional qualifications through the Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel.

- Leadership and management development.

- Long service award.

- Refer a friend bonuses.

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## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office
- audio-typing
- medical terminology
- organisational skills
- communication skills
- confidentiality

### Nice to have
- CareNotes
- electronic patient record systems
- dairy management
- correspondence management

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