Senior Secretary

We are looking for an experienced senior secretary to work with the Community South Specialist Palliative Care Team., To provide a specialised, comprehensive and confidential patient-centred clinical administration and secretarial service to consultants and their teams in accordance with Departmental, Trust and National standards, policies and procedures. To act as a source of advice and guidance regarding the specialty.

To have an understanding on the importance/relevance of how to co-ordinate the management of the elective and/or emergency pathways to include Cancer, Referral to Treatment Targets (RTT) and Choose & Book and Co-ordinate Specialist Palliative Care Multi-Disciplinary Team Meeting. Ensuring the role is deputised when taking planned absence.

To co-ordinate the delivery of a specialty specific single point of access for patients.

The Community Specialist Palliative Care Team is a busy team based in South Warwickshire Community. The ideal candidate will have previous experience within a senior secretarial role, confident and proficient in using MS office applications.

You will be personable and dedicated to the role with outstanding attention to detail, comfortable with a challenging and variable workload. You will be able to work autonomously within a team and willing to provide support to the team as required. You will have a flexible approach to your work. Experience of the NHS is desirable, but not essential.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

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