Job responsibilities To maintain an efficient office management system/procedures to enable the consultant and his/her team to optimise their patient care services. This will require: effective management of the consultants time, managing schedules and leave arrangements ensuring appropriate and timely communications with all relevant personnel, arranging meetings/events, composing and transcribing minutes proactively ensuring action points are raised and completed, preparation of correspondence and reports; effective management of the consultants office by establishing and maintaining efficient manual and electronic correspondence and documentation management systems; ensuring office equipment and stationery levels are maintained, processing orders as required and tracking patients through their pathway from initial referral to discharge. To support team members. This will require: demonstrating and explaining Departmental practices and procedures; undertaking appropriate training and development with new and existing staff ensuring high standards of practice are maintained at all times; providing cross-cover on a reciprocal basis in the absence of colleagues and providing day to day supervision where Provide oversight to the Support Secretaries for associated administrative activities, such as patient bookings, appropriate documentation and typing, with local training. Use of hospital systems, including IPM, CRRS, Opera, Winscribe and from October 2023, EPR, to effectively manage workload and RTT patient pathways. Liaise with patients over the phone for clinics, theatre bookings and general queries, providing feedback to Consultants and Admin Manager team for any urgent matters. Ensuring clear lines communication and correspondence in line with Trust policies and procedures. Responding to patient complaints and providing follow-up actions for any outcomes required to the PALS team and senior management. Will provide a key function in the booking of Outpatients follow-up appointments and short notice theatres, tracking the patient through the processes as part of managing their Consultants Waiting List. Responsibility for typing of routine and urgent letters where appropriate, linking in with clinicians for any queries and for following up on verification. Complete Trust Mandatory Training and keep up-to-date for all modules. Attend regular 1:1 meetings with Admin Manager for discussion over work activities, forward planning, training needs and opportunities, as well as welfare checks Key Result Areas and Performance Ensuring theatres and clinics are fully utilised to 100% Ensuring quick turnaround of PALS complaints For further details please see the attached job description.