Medical Typist - UHL

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in London is seeking a Medical Typist to join its Haematology Department. The role involves providing administrative support to the medical team and managing correspondence while ensuring patient confidentiality. Candidates must have strong typing skills, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and good interpersonal skills. This is a part-time position offering a salary between £24,937 and £26,598 per year.

Qualifications

• Good standard of education.
• GCSEs or equivalent.
• RSA3 Typing/word processing or other recognized qualification or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and secretarial support to the medical team.
• Assist in producing correspondence and reports.
• Act as a central point of information for the clinical team.

Skills

Audio typing skills

Interpersonal communication

Computer skills

Ability to work under pressure

Organizational skills

Education

Good standard of education

GCSEs or equivalent

RSA3 Typing/Word processing qualification

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Job summary

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

This is a fixed term post

An opportunity has just become available for the right candidate to join the Haematology Department Secretarial team at the University Hospital, Lewisham as a Medical Typist.

We are seeking for dedicated, motivated, proactive person to join our team to help us provide high quality care to our service users.

The post holder will provide administrative and secretarial support to the Haematology medical team and Senior Management Team. The post holder will be able to communicate between external and internal members of staff as well as the public.

You must enjoy working in a busy environment and be able to prioritise your own workload. You will need good interpersonal skills with the ability to work as part of a team, be IT literate, and able to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Main duties of the job

To act as a central point of information and communication for the clinical team.

To provide a full secretarial support service to consultants and members of their teams in respect to their general medical duties and specialist work.

To act independently ensuring that daily tasks and ongoing workloads are prioritised and completed in agreed timeframes.

PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this post

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Details Date posted

18 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year Per annum plus HCA pro rata

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

197-R-UT7420-A

Job locations

University Hosptial London

Lewisham High St

London

SE13 6LH

Job description

To assist the team of Medical Secretaries in producing correspondence and reports by the use of audio transcription, including those of a distressing or emotional nature.

To provide comprehensive administrative, clerical and audio typing support to Consultants and their teams.

To deal with all telephone calls relating to the service, ensuring patient focus is maintained and enquiries are handled in a courteous, tactful and prompt manner, and respecting patient confidentiality at all times.

To maintain filing systems that facilitate the effective running of the department.

To cross cover within the team, including periods of absence and high demand.

To take an active role in initiatives to improve the administrative service provided to managers and clinicians, and the service received by patients and their families.

To open, date stamp and distribute post as requested.

To manage patient records appropriately, ensuring an up-to-date record is maintained of all case notes returned from the wards and clinics, that patient case notes are available for clinics and appointments and are dispatched to other departments or hospitals as necessary.

To file investigation results in appropriate health records and draw relevant Medical Secretary’s attention to all incoming results as necessary.

Person Specification – Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Good standard of education.
• GCSEs or equivalent.
• RSA3 Typing/word processing or other recognised qualification or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• ECDL
• AMSPAR or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of working in a busy healthcare environment
• Computer skills and a willingness to learn new software packages.
• Audio and copy typewriting skills
• Experience of managing competing and varied demands.
• Good telephone manner.

Desirable

• Use of Digital dictation systems.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Clear handwriting, spelling, grammar & numeracy
• Ability to use initiative and work unsupervised.
• To have a systematic and methodical approach to work with attention to detail.
• Ability to demonstrate good interpersonal, oral and written communication skills especially when dealing with highly sensitive information and where there are barriers to understanding.
• Ability to demonstrate good organisational skills and to prioritise/manage own workload in a demanding environment.
• Ability to develop and implement new and existing systems in the department.
• Ability to organise meetings, take and distribute minutes.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to use word, Excel, powerpoint, and Access database software.
• Ability to use a PC for word processing to a high standard.
• Ability to use internet/intranet to gather information for a wider range of uses.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Ability to deal tactfully and sympathetically with parents/carers, members of the public and professionals.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding and respect for confidentiality.
• Ability to work closely with team members and external parties.
• Responsive to change and ideas, adapt to new systems.
• Ability to work flexibly.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Motivation to participate in personal and professional development programmes.
• Ability to recognise when to seek support.

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 details

Employer name: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address:

University Hosptial London

Lewisham High St

London

SE13 6LH

Employer's website: https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/