Experience

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Medical Secretary

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Following Admin Consultation, change in job title and role.Working for Consultant Psychiatrist of an acute male ward & a rehab unit. This typing summaries, dealing with Mental Health Act paperwork, liaising with various teams both external & internal, ensuring the medical team data targets are met and taking minutes at the weekly MDT.For a short period of time I worked for the Hospital Liaison Consultant Psychiatrist. This involved arranging Liaison clinic appointments, typing of clinic appointment letters, recording outcomes and liaising with internal and external teams.

• Senior Team Secretary, Secretary to EPUT Flow and Capacity Lead and Secretary to Clinical Director

  • Jun 2018 - Jul 2021

• Senior Team Secretary and Secretary to EPUT Flow and Capacity Lead

  • Sep 2017 - Jun 2018

  As below plus assisting the EPUT Flow and Capacity Lead with statistical collation. Liaising with the admission and discharge coordinators and taking minutes for the weekly Extra-ordinary Sit Rep conference call.

• Senior Team Secretary

  • Apr 2017 - Jun 2018

  SEPT AND NEPFT MERGERWorking for Consultant Psychiatrist, an SpR, a MTI and assisting the Ward Manager for an adult acute psychiatric functional inpatient ward.This role involves typing reports for Mental Health Tribunals, assisting my team with keeping to set targets including CPA, Mental Health Clustering & the Minimum Data Set.Typing of admission and discharge summaries, ensuring they are sent by secure email to GPs within the timeline set by Trust Policy (5 working days following discharge). I act on my own initiative ensuring a patient gets the correct service, e.g. requesting MRI/CT results, recent blood test results, MMSE scores & background information.I assist with organising Mental Health Act paperwork when necessary & also arranging SOAD requests for patients who are on Section of the Mental Health Act (1983).I offer advice to GPs & other agencies regarding referrals to our service.I act as first point of call for any queries & assist with vital information sharing with teams including Probation; Advocacy; ECC; DWP; DVLA; Police including BTP; Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT) from outside our Trust area; General Inpatient Wards; CAB; Social Services; GPs; A&E; Duty Teams; Medical Records Departments, Housing Services & Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Teams (CRHT).Along side my day to day work I am currently working on data cleansing to ensure our patient recording system is as up to date as possible for our East Inpatient Teams.



North Essex Partnership

• United Kingdom
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Team Secretary

  • Apr 2015 - Mar 2017

  Working for Consultant Psychiatrist, two SpRs and assisting the Ward Manager for an adult acute psychiatric functional inpatient ward. This role involves typing reports for Mental Health Tribunals, assisting my team with keeping to set targets including CPA, Mental Health Clustering & the Minimum Data Set. Typing of admission and discharge summaries, ensuring they are sent by secure email to GPs within the timeline set by Trust Policy (5 working days following discharge). I act on my own initiative ensuring a patient gets the correct service, e.g. requesting MRI/CT results, recent blood test results (I have access to look up pathology results), MMSE scores & background information. I assist with organising Mental Health Act paperwork when necessary & also arranging SOAD requests for patients who are on Section of the Mental Health Act (1983). I offer advice to GPs & other agencies regarding referrals to our service. I act as first point of call for any queries & assist with vital information sharing with teams including Probation; Advocacy; ECC; DWP; DVLA; Police including BTP; Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT) from outside our Trust area; General Inpatient Wards; CAB; Social Services; GPs; A&E; Duty Teams; Medical Records Departments, Housing Services & Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Teams (CRHT). I assist with patient monies and petty cash. Along side my day to day work I am currently working on data cleansing to ensure our patient recording system is as up to date as possible for our East Inpatient Teams.



NEP Group, Inc.

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Team Secretary & Secretary to Clinical Manager

  • Nov 2015 - Jul 2016

  As below plus assisting with collating regular statistics for home treatment teams x 2 and inpatient wards x 2 and supervision records. Liaising with Team Managers and Senior Managers regarding concerns, service improvements and matters of a sensitive nature. Ensuring patients receive a 48 hr telephone contact and 7 day face to face contact when discharged from inpatient care from ward & community staff. As below plus assisting with collating regular statistics for home treatment teams x 2 and inpatient wards x 2 and supervision records. Liaising with Team Managers and Senior Managers regarding concerns, service improvements and matters of a sensitive nature. Ensuring patients receive a 48 hr telephone contact and 7 day face to face contact when discharged from inpatient care from ward & community staff.



NEPUFT

• clacton on sea

• Consultant Secretary

  • Nov 2010 - Mar 2015

  Working in a team, I provide secretarial support for a Consultant Psychiatrist & a Specialist Trainee. This role involves typing reports for Mental Health Tribunals, SCT renewal reports, Court Reports & patient outcome letters. I assist my team with keeping to set targets including CPA,/Non CPA, Mental Health Clustering. 5WTT/18WTT, & the Minimum Data Set. I assist with seeking further information when we receive referrals, acting on my own instincts of what is needed in order to ensure the patient gets the correct service, e.g. requesting MRI results, recent blood test results, MMSE scores & background information if the patient has just moved to the area. The team have a caseload of approx 250 patients. I assist with organsing Mental Health Act paperwork when necessary & also arranging SOAD requests. As a team we take part in National Audits, which help create better and improved services for patients. We also provide, at the request of solicitors, full psychiatric assessments for HMP prisoners. I take calls from people who may be experiencing a crisis & I support them & sign post them to the correct service in order for them to get the input they need. I offer advice to GPs & other agencies regarding referrals to our service, I act as first point of call for any queries & assist with vital information sharing with teams including Probation; Advocacy; ECC; DWP; DVLA; Police; Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT); Criminal Justice Mental Health Teams (CJMHT); General Inpatient Wards; CAB; Social Services; GPs; A&E; Duty Teams; Medical Records departments & Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Teams (CRHT). I assist with initiating AMHP referrals for Mental Health Act Assessments. I also provide support to my secretarial colleagues & assist with reception cover as & when required. In addition to this role I am a Manual Handling Link Trainer & assist with the Health & Safety, & when needed security aspects, of the building.



North Essex Partnership Foundation NHS Trust

• clacton-on-sea, england

• Secretary/Receptionist

  • Sep 2007 - Oct 2010

  Combining my role as a receptionist with providing secretarial assistance for a variety of managers including those attached to the Crisis Team and an acute mental health ward. I assisted with both adult and older adult secretarial work. I took minutes for team meetings and safeguarding meetings, as well as producing facts and figures for various staff. I was also involved in setting up the local residential care list to ensure residents with mental health problems were regularly reviewed. I provided admin support for local in-house duty team. Assisting with stationary ordering and agency invoicing.



NEPFT

• Clacton-on-Sea, England

• CMHT Secretary

  • Jun 2004 - Sep 2007

  Provided secretarial input for a team consisting of a Team Manager, Social Workers, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Support Workers and Approved Social Workers. Typing clinical letters for the Staff Grade Psychiatrist attached to the team along with providing support to callers to the team. I also managed the petty cash for the team. Provided secretarial input for a team consisting of a Team Manager, Social Workers, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Support Workers and Approved Social Workers. Typing clinical letters for the Staff Grade Psychiatrist attached to the team along with providing support to callers to the team. I also managed the petty cash for the team.



NEPFT

• Clacton-on-Sea, England

• Ward Clerk

  • 2003 - 2004

  Working on an Acute Psychiatric Ward providing admin support for Staff Nurses, Charge Nurses, Health Care Assistants and the Ward Manager. Liaising with other services provided for mental health service users such as CMHTs and Day Hospitals. Working on an Acute Psychiatric Ward providing admin support for Staff Nurses, Charge Nurses, Health Care Assistants and the Ward Manager. Liaising with other services provided for mental health service users such as CMHTs and Day Hospitals.



Decor4cakes

• Clacton-on-Sea, England

• Secretary

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  Setting up the database and ordering codes for cake decorations for the firm. Taking and processing orders and arranging invoices. Setting up the database and ordering codes for cake decorations for the firm. Taking and processing orders and arranging invoices.