Departmental Secretary - #99839

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge in a place to take your career to the next level? Would you like to join a friendly, progressive, innovative team and play a part in the transformation of pathology services across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw? Do you want to work in a fully UKAS-accredited, modern laboratory environment where you can make a difference?

• Oversight and responsibility for the maintenance and updating of procedural documentation, directly pertinent to the clerical staff base.
• Deal with telephone and other media enquiries from all staff groups and service users in a tactful, polite and courteous manner, bringing urgent matters to the attention of team members, managers and Consultants.
• Provide a flexible administrative support service across the department as required.
• Communicate effectively with the use of tact and diplomacy and seek to overcome barriers to effective communication. This may require the use of multiple communication methods, such as email and telephone.
• Undertake computer duties that include relevant electronic Trust and Microsoft systems.
• Maintain good IT skills and carry out keyboard work for long periods where there may be regular queries and interruptions from service users and team members.
  
  

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

STHFT operates with a budget of £1.2 bn, has a workforce of over 18,500 employees, covers five hospital sites, provides care from over forty community settings, and has an excellent reputation for research.

As an organisation we value and respect our staff and the community we serve. We provide excellent staff benefits; this includes commitment to professional development but also many initiatives to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

The South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Pathology Partnership are invested in training, developing, and supporting staff in all aspects including academic courses from certificates of achievement, registration, specialist and higher specialist IBMS portfolios, apprenticeships and leadership and management qualifications.

We pride ourselves in enabling opportunity across all our sites to develop staff and provide a strong and sustained service for the future.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Michelle Poole Job title: Head BMS in Microbiology Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01302 642838