Bank Medical Secretary

Spire St Anthony's Hospital is currently recruiting for a Bank Medical Secretary to join their team on a bank, zero-hour contract

Founded in 1904, Spire St Anthony's Hospital delivers care through skilled and dedicated staff working together. With a completed £27m development investment, we provide very high quality healthcare to patients around Sutton, Epsom, Surrey and South London.

To provide a proficient and professional medical service to consultants, providing cover as and when required to other members of the department. Acting as point of contact for patient enquiries, offering outstanding customer service at all times.

• →Providing an efficient and timely secretarial service to assigned consultants and any other associated teams. 
• →Liaising with patients on a daily basis, handling queries and arranging admissions as and when required, in a professional and courteous manner 
• →Liaising with insurance companies and other external agencies, as appropriate 
• →Production of medical letters, operation/clinic notes and discharge summaries. 
• →Arranging completion of claim forms, if required, with relevant consultant, ensuring all financial paperwork is kept up to date 
• →Developing good working relationships with consultants, administration teams, nursing staff and any other departments 
• →Manage outpatient bookings, where required, ensuring the appointments process runs smoothly 
• →Manage Consultants’ records and filing 
• →Undertake all work in accordance with company hospital policies and procedures. Ensuring familiarity with the Health and Safety at Work Act, including manual handling and fire procedures 
• →To maintain confidentiality of all information acquitted with regard to patients, consultants and staff and not on any account disclose information about the affairs of the hospital, its subsidiaries or associates 
• →Provide and receive patient information, ensuring that all patient information is provided, received and recorded in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Spire policies. 
• →To present a professional, smart image at all times, ensuring adherence to hospital uniform policy 
• →Carry out any other duty that reasonably falls within the general nature and level of responsibility of the post.

• Audio skills 
• Good standard of secondary education with demonstrable literacy and numeracy skills
• Track record of successful delivery in a similar role, with experience in a wide range of secretarial duties

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion.
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together

We commit to our employees’ well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

“Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.”

Our vision is to be recognised as a world class healthcare business bringing together the best people who are dedicated to developing excellent clinical environments and delivering the highest quality patient care.