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Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Wythenshawe; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave + bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Job summary

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 3 Medical Support Secretary to join the Perinatal CMHT. This full-time role (37.5 hours, Mon-Fri) offers a busy, supportive environment in a large team with a focus on efficient admin support and timely document handling.

You will provide secretarial duties to consultants and clinicians, manage diaries, perform audio typing of letters and prescriptions, handle correspondence, and liaise with service users and health

Qualifications

• Experience in medical administration or secretarial support.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide secretarial duties to consultants and clinicians.
• Manage diaries and schedule appointments.
• Perform audio typing of clinical letters and prescriptions.
• Handle correspondence and disseminate information to the team.

Skills

Audio typing

Diary management

Administrative support

Job description

Medical Support Secretary | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly organised Band 3 Medical Support Secretary (37.5 hours, Mon-Fri, full-time ) to work in the Perinatal CMHT. We are seeking a conscientious administrator with a can-do attitude who enjoys working in a large team and demonstrates a commitment to delivering high quality administration support in an efficient and timely manner.

The successful applicant will have excellent communication and organisational skills and have a broad range of administration experience, being able to work with intuitive and sometimes under pressure.

The successful applicant will have excellent communication and organisational skills and have a broad range of administration and secretarial experience, being able to work with initiative and sometimes under pressure. The post-holder will work as part of a dynamic team supporting medical secretaries, consultants, clinicians and team managers in the smooth running of the Admin Services. The successful applicant will work directly with the consultant, providing secretarial duties and co-ordinate and facilitate the dissemination of information to and from the team and be required to deal efficiently, precisely and courteously with telephone calls from service users as well as health professionals.

You will be a well organised and experienced secretary with knowledge of medical terminology. You will ensure all consultants and clinicians within your role are organised and equipped to fulfil their responsibilities. Duties will include audio typing clinical letters and typing of medical and other correspondence, actioning any requirements identified in minutes/typing, uploading scanning including prescriptions and assisting the consultants with their diary management if required.

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over7000members of staff, who deliver services from more than122locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Please see attached job description and person specification

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years


• Cycle to work scheme


• Salary sacrifice car scheme

This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Sep 2026