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Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Heywood; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Flexible working

Health & wellbeing

Job summary

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly motivated Support Secretary to join the Community Paediatric Service and provide excellent secretarial and administrative support to Consultants and health professionals.

You should have excellent audiotyping skills, be proficient in Microsoft Office, highly organised, and capable of taking minutes, managing correspondence, and handling confidential information. The role includes reception duties and maintaining training records.

Qualifications

• Excellent audiotyping skills and experience, preferably NHS.
• Strong secretarial and administration capabilities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and respectful of confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Typing and formatting of correspondence, clinical letters, reports and policies.
• Audio-typing, copy typing and formatting of clinical letters and reports with follow-ups.
• Taking minutes of meetings and distributing to staff.
• Reception duties when required and maintaining organised admin systems.

Skills

Audiotyping

Secretarial skills

Administration

Communication

Teamwork

Time management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Support Secretary | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

We areseekinga highly motivated and enthusiastic Support Secretarywho can provide excellent secretarial and administration skillstojoin our dedicatedSecretarial Team within the Community Paediatric Service.

The roleinvolves supportinga team ofConsultantsand other health professionals.You should have excellentaudiotyping skillsand experience (preferably within an NHS setting)and be computer literatewith a broad experience of Microsoft Office packages.You will need to behighlyorganised witha flexible approach to yourwork and have excellent communicationand team working skills.You will need to beself-motivated to manage your ownworking time effectively.

To provide professional, comprehensive and confidential administrative support to the relevant health professionals and their team.

This includes typing and formatting of correspondence, clinical

letters, reports and policies from handwritten, dictated, paper, or electronic information in line with Trust corporate guidelines.

To work collaboratively with other administrative colleagues and

support staff.

Audio-typing, copy typing and formatting of clinical letters and reports where follow up actions as required.

appropriate; meeting timescales as directed by your line manager.

To take minutes of meetings, type and distribute to all members of staff

Word processing, which may include letter, memos, notes, record cards, messages and email communication.

Collate, provide, receive and appropriately store (manually and electronically) sensitive and confidential information,

Maintain administrative systems set up in team offices to ensure an organised and efficient working environment for staff.

Responsible for assisting with the booking of team training and responsible for maintaining local training records

Undertake reception duties if required.

To attend meetings, training and briefing sessions appropriate to either your job specific role or, as a staff member of the Trust.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack.

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This advert closes on Sunday 18 Oct 2026

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Support Secretary | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Company: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

Salary: £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata, per annum

Hours: Part-time

Location: Heywood, OL10 2DY

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 2 Oct 2026

Closing date: 1 Nov 2026

Summary

We areseekinga highly motivated and enthusiastic Support Secretarywho can provide excellent secretarial and administration skillstojoin our dedicatedSecretarial Team within the Community Paediatric Service.

The roleinvolves supportinga team ofConsultantsand other health professionals.You should have excellentaudiotyping skillsand experience (preferably within an NHS setting)and be computer liter