South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Secretary in Specialist Palliative Care
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Senior Secretary in Specialist Palliative Care
We are looking for a dynamic forward thinking compassionate individual to provide secretarial and administrative support to the specialist palliative care team based in Warwick Hospital.
You must be able to work independently but also as part of a team to support various clinicians as well as patients and their carers.
You will need to be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal verbal and written communication and IT skills and be highly organised. You must also be able to demonstrate your ability to plan, prioritise, manage your time and problem solve effectively.
The post holder is office based in Warwick Hospital Monday - Friday 08:30 - 16:30
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 of 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.
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To co-ordinate the delivery of a specialty specific single point of access for patients.
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.
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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
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Angela Wilson
- Job title: Lead Nurse Specialist Palliative Care
- Email address: angela.wilson2@swft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07386651728
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