Medical Secretary

NHS; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Part time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a dedicated Medical Secretary for the Rochdale Sexual Health Service. This part-time role involves providing comprehensive administrative support to the team, managing workloads, and ensuring efficient service delivery. Ideal candidates will possess strong organizational skills and be prepared for on-site work.

Benefits

Salary access as earned

Free tea, coffee and milk

Membership discounts

Mental and physical health support

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar administrative role is essential.
• Knowledge of medical terminology is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide full secretarial services, including typing and recording minutes.
• Manage referrals, appointments, and correspondence.
• Support the Administration Manager with daily operational functions.

Skills

Proactive organisation

Flexibility

Initiative

Job description

We are seeking a dedicated Medical Secretary to provide comprehensive administrative and secretarial support to our Consultants and clinical staff at our Rochdale Sexual Health Service!

In this pivotal role, you will work closely with the Consultant and the clinical team to manage workloads, coordinate activities, and ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of services. Your ability to demonstrate initiative, flexibility, and proactive organisation will be essential as you navigate the dynamic needs of the team.

Please note that due to the nature of this role, it requires on-site presence and is not suitable for agile or remote working.

This is a part time position working 16 hours (2 days) across the week at our ORBISH Sexual Health Service based in Rochdale.

Main duties of the job

As a Medical Secretary your responsibilities will include:

• Provision of full secretarial service which includes typing letters, reports, non-clinical typing and recording minutes of meetings.
• Recording referrals, appointments and related information in a timely manner.
• Accurately transcribe all correspondence and reports by touch typing from audio dictation using knowledge of medical terminology.
• Undertake routine clerical duties distributing and dispatching mail, photocopying, responding to emails.
• Provide cover in the absence of other administrative staff answering the telephone, dealing with enquiries, taking messages and booking appointments.
• Support the Administration Manager in the day-to-day operational functions of the department.

For a full list of responsibilities please see attached job description

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Medical Secretary you'll be part of our valued team at our ORBISH Sexual Health Service in Rochdale.

You will feel valued as a Medical Secretary within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £24,486.00 (pro rata to hours worked) with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffeeand milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.