Medical secretaries provide office support to hospital doctors by making appointments, dealing with patients’ queries and working closely with health professionals. They may also provide this support to GPs, health service managers and medical researchers. Medical secretaries can also be known as personal assistants.
If you want to work in a healthcare team and you have excellent organisational skills and typing skills, then you may enjoy this role.
As a medical secretary or personal assistant, you could work for a:
Your duties would include:
If you work as a medical secretary in a large office, you may be responsible for a team of secretaries. You would manage their workload and make sure they had all the equipment they needed to do their job.
If you want to work in a healthcare team and you have excellent organisational skills and typing skills, then you may enjoy this role.
As a medical secretary or personal assistant, you could work for a:
- consultant in a hospital setting
- director or chief executive of an NHS Trust
- GP surgery
- private practice
- university or research department
- pharmaceutical company.
Your duties would include:
- handling enquiries from patients
- organising a consultant's or director’s diary
- organising travel arrangements
- managing a consultant's waiting list
- updating patient records
- sending samples for medical testing
- making sure that test results are filed with the right patient notes
- typing patient letters and clinical reports
- managing a filing system
- monitoring an office budget.
If you work as a medical secretary in a large office, you may be responsible for a team of secretaries. You would manage their workload and make sure they had all the equipment they needed to do their job.
Salary:-
A full time Medical Secretary earns upto £27,000/- pa
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