Job overview

As Team Secretary the postholder will be required to provide a range of secretarial and clerical services to support the smooth running of day-to-day operational issues for the Clinical Team supporting the OPMHT, thus enabling a whole team approach with the aim of improving patient services and care. 

The Team Secretary will be expected to portray a positive image and be able to liaise in a professional manner with clients, colleagues and visitors.

·        Use in-depth knowledge of a range of secretarial procedures to include medical terminology and medical audio/copy typing along with minute taking to support the Consultant Psychiatrist and clinical team.

·        The emphasis within the Team will be on team working, sharing of knowledge and experience for the overall benefit of the organisation.

Main duties of the job

To attend multi-disciplinary meetings, ward rounds and case conferences to take minutes, ensuring timely production and distribution to all concerned 

To arrange meetings, including the organisation of venue 

 Communicate with all disciplines within the Team and across the Directorate as well as clients, carers, GPs, Pharmacies and other agencies involved in client care.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see ‘Welsh Language Guidance’ in the documents right at the bottom.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.  Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.