NHS Ayrshire & Arran
Clinical Support Secretary
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An Opportunity for a Clinical Support Secretary
An opportunity has arisen for a friendly and reliable individual to take on the role of Clinical Support Secretary to the Community Mental Health Team in Kirkcaldy.
Role Overview
The Support Secretary will be responsible for delivering robust and efficient administration support to the developing Kirkcaldy Fife Community Mental Health Team.
Key Responsibilities
- Directly support the Community Mental Health Team including the medical secretaries, team lead, nurses, and medical staff based at Whyteman’s Brae Hospital.
- Support the wider administration team ensuring delivery of essential digital services for patient contact including NHS Near Me and Community Mental Health Team Duty Line System.
Candidate Requirements
- Educated to equivalent of Standard Grade or have relevant experience.
- Good communication, excellent organisation, numerical and listening skills are essential.
- Ability to work as a member of a team or on your own initiative with minimal supervision.
- Must be computer literate, have excellent typing skills, and previous secretarial experience is essential, including audio typing/digital dictation.
- Knowledge and experience of Patient Administration Systems would be an advantage but not essential as training will be given.
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- You will be expected to attend in-house training opportunities for personal development and ongoing learning.
- Flexibility to provide cover for holidays/illness may be required.
- You will be required, often at short notice, to travel to other sites from Dunfermline to Cupar to support the wider CMHT sectors across Fife.
Contact Information
For informal enquiries please contact Wendy Sime, Clinical Support Supervisor at wendy.sime2@nhs.scot
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Legal Requirements
- A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
- To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
- NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK as part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
- It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.
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Commitment to Equality and Diversity
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
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