PA/Medical Secretary | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading cancer treatment center in Manchester is seeking a part-time PA/Medical Secretary to support the Oncology Department. The role includes secretarial duties, managing correspondence, and organizing meetings, requiring strong audio typing skills and medical knowledge. The candidate should be adaptable and able to work in a busy environment. This position offers flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience in medical secretarial roles.
• Ability to manage confidential information.
• Take initiative in a busy team environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide full secretarial support to the oncology teams.
• Organize meetings and maintain diaries.
• Liaise with consultants and staff for effective communication.

Skills

Audio typing

Copy typing

Medical terminology knowledge

Team collaboration

Flexibility

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a well-motivated individual to join us as a PA/Medical Secretary in the Oncology Department within Networked Services Division. This is a part time, permanent post. It will be working 30 hours per week Monday to Friday, with the option of hybrid working. The Trust are committed to supporting flexible working agreements.

Responsibilities

• Cover the provision of full secretarial and administrative support within the Medical Oncology Sarcoma and TYA teams, ensuring a high standard of PA / secretarial duties is maintained and deadlines and audio typing targets are met.
• You will be enthusiastic, flexible, willing to learn, eager to play an effective part in a busy team environment, work to a high standard and be able to use your own initiative.
• You will have experience of audio typing and copy typing and ideally have worked within a healthcare environment with Medical Secretarial experience and a good knowledge of medical terminology. Knowledge of cancer pathways/targets would be beneficial.
• When applying for this position, please refer to the person specification and demonstrate within your application form how you meet the criteria, providing examples where possible.
• As a PA/Medical Secretary for the Medical Oncology Sarcoma and TYA Teams, you will be responsible for completing, but not limited to, tasks such as:
• Liaise with all consultants in your area of responsibility to provide a full secretarial service, including all administrative duties and dealing with mail, this includes placing it in order of priority and acting on matters which can be dealt with without further reference.
• Appropriately disseminate a variety of correspondence/documentation, some of which is highly confidential.
• Type clinical correspondence, treatment summaries and annotations, ensuring compliance with turnaround time/ targets and ensure that office instructions are followed.
• Organise and schedule meetings and maintain an up to date diary for appointments, meetings and interviews.
• Effectively monitor clinic templates liaising with clinical team and administration staff to ensure clinic numbers are manageable. Escalating to the management team when appropriate.
• Liaise with staff at all levels both internally and externally, answering written and verbal enquiries when necessary, taking action on all matters which can be dealt with without further reference.
• Answer written and verbal enquiries from patients/relatives, referring enquiries to consultants only when necessary.

About The Christie

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

Duties and responsibilities

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Liaise with internal and external departments to arrange clinical investigations/procedures.
• Liaise with all consultants in your area of responsibility to provide a full secretarial service, including administrative duties and dealing with mail, prioritising and acting on matters without further reference.
• Disseminate a variety of correspondence/documentation, some of which is highly confidential.
• Organise and schedule meetings and maintain an up-to-date diary for appointments, meetings and interviews.
• Monitor clinic templates liaising with clinical team and administration staff to ensure clinic numbers are manageable; escalate to Admin and Service Managers when appropriate.
• Liaise with staff at all levels both internally and externally, answering written and verbal enquiries when necessary, acting on matters which can be dealt with without further reference.

This advert closes on Friday 26 Sep 2025