Community Paediatric Secretary | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust in England is seeking a Community Paediatric Secretary to support a busy Community Paediatric Service. The successful candidate will have excellent communication, organisation, and administrative skills. Duties include providing comprehensive secretarial support, typing clinical correspondence, and referral management. This opportunity offers a supportive environment for professional growth and development.

Qualifications

• Experience of working within an office environment.
• Ability to provide excellent secretarial and administrative support.

Responsibilities

• Provide secretarial and administrative support to the consultant and community paediatric team.
• Type clinical correspondence, manage referrals, and liaise via telephone.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Organisational skills

Administrative skills

Typing skills

Microsoft Office IT skills

Familiarity with audio/digital dictation

Job description

Overview

Due to promotion we have a 30 hours Community Paediatric Secretary post available. Working within a busy, dynamic Community Paediatric Service, encompassing looked after children, child development, education and child protection, you’ll work in a great team in modern offices. You’ll receive an induction programme, full training and have the opportunity for ongoing learning and development. If you have a positive attitude and want to learn, this is a great opportunity to utilise your excellent communication, organisation and administrative skills to support others. With experience of working within an office environment, you’ll have excellent typing and Microsoft Office IT skills and be familiar with audio/digital dictation. Come and join our supportive team and we’ll support you to develop and excel in your role. We look forward to meeting you.

Responsibilities

To provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the consultant and community paediatric team in accordance with relevant policies, procedures, protocols and guidance. The will include typing of clinical correspondence, referral management and telephone liaison.

About the Trust

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Candidate information

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025