Band 4 Senior Medical Secretary | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Birmingham is looking for an experienced Band 4 Senior Medical Secretary to support the Oral Surgery department. Responsibilities include managing a team of secretaries, ensuring accurate clinical correspondence, and providing administrative support. Candidates should have medical secretarial experience and strong organizational skills. This role promises opportunities for professional development and is part of a values-driven team committed to integrated community care.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Flexible working

Be part of a values-driven team

Qualifications

• Experience in a medical secretarial role.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to manage a team.
• Competence in using in-house and national systems.

Responsibilities

• Direct line management of 2 Band 3 medical secretaries.
• Ensure accurate transcribing of clinical correspondence.
• Handle sickness absence management and annual leave.
• Cover for band 4 colleagues during absence.
• Support management to ensure robust secretarial service.

Job description

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced medical secretary to work in the Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry.

As a Band 4 Senior Medial Secretary, you will provide professional medical secretarial support for the Oral Surgery department using inhouse and national systems.

Responsibilities

• Direct line management of 2 Band 3 medical secretaries.
• Support them with ensuring accurate and timely transcribing of all clinical correspondence and associated administrative tasks.
• Line management of 2 Band 3 medical secretaries, including sickness absence management, annual leave and PDR/mandatory training.
• Ensuring all clinical correspondence and other administrative tasks for Oral Surgery are completed accurately and timely.
• Covering for band 4 colleagues in times of annual leave and absence.
• Supporting the management team to ensure a robust medical secretarial service.

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a forward-thinking and values-driven team dedicated to integrated community care.
• Influence service delivery and population health across a growing collaborative.
• Enjoy opportunities for professional development and flexible working.

Please see the detailed job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for a full list of all main duties and responsibilities.

This advert closes on Friday 7 Nov 2025