Medical Secretary

NHS; Warrington; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider is seeking a Medical Secretary to join their team in Warrington. The successful candidate will provide comprehensive secretarial support to consultants and departmental teams, ensuring the highest levels of patient confidentiality. Key qualifications include prior medical secretarial experience and a recognized diploma. This position offers an opportunity to be part of a caring organization committed to delivering excellent patient care.

Qualifications

• Must have previous medical secretarial experience.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and safeguard patient information.
• Must understand the Data Protection Act (1998).

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive secretarial service to Consultant(s) and Departmental Team.
• Type and dispatch letters, manage diaries for consultants.
• Ensure compliance with 18-week pathway and patient transfer processes.

Skills

Previous Medical Secretarial experience

Approachable, responsible, dependable

Medical Terminology

Knowledge/experience of patient administration systems

Education

AMSPAR Medical Secretarial Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Medical Secretary at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT. The closing date is 05 October 2025.

Main duties of the job

To type back with Trust timescales (from audio/digital/voice recognition) Outpatient letters/discharge letters and dispatch signed letters to post and return medical records to the library promptly. To keep a diary for the consultant and arrange/remind consultant of appointments/meetings. Arrange appointments for visitors including drug representatives, outside normal outpatient clinic sessions. To ensure compliance with 18-week pathway by entering correct outcome code onto hospital information system as per consultant direction. To complete necessary, Inter Provider Transfer for patients referred to other organisations and ensure appropriate 18-week code updated.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

We employ nearly 5,000 people from over 80 nationalities, striving to be a diverse, inclusive employer and recognised leader in equality. We support flexible working, welcoming flexible applications. Proud of our many accreditations, we are embedding an anti-racist approach in all we do.

Job responsibilities

To provide a comprehensive secretarial service to Consultant(s) and Departmental Team, within the general procedures laid down for the department. The confidential nature of all work concerning patients must be understood and safeguarded. The medical secretary is part of a team and must regard the interests of the patient as paramount and as such must be aware of the Data Protection Act (1998) and be aware of the consequences of the failure

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Person Specification

• Previous Medical Secretarial experience
• Approachable, responsible, dependable, have patience and diplomacy
• Medical Terminology
• AMSPAR Medical Secretarial Diploma or equivalent
• Knowledge/experience of patient administration systems

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.

Employer name

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT

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