Team Secretary - Specialist Surgical Care Collaborative
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 06/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a part-time Team Secretary role within the Specialist Surgical Care Collaborative at Cumberland Infirmary. The successful candidate will ideally have experience as a Team Secretary, medical terminology knowledge, and familiarity with NCIC admin systems. The role involves supporting medical secretaries, team secretaries, and clerk typists, working alongside consultants and nurse practitioners. Key duties include ensuring a 48-hour turnaround for clinical letters, forward clinic preparation, minute taking, and general office administration.
Essential criteria
- GCSE English language (minimum C grade) or equivalent.
- RSA 2 word processing or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- RSA 3 word processing or equivalent.
- NVQ 3 in administration or equivalent
- Skills & Aptitudes
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to analyse complex facts or situations.
- Able to use initiative appropriately within team environment.
- Able to work without supervision.
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
- Able to work to deadlines.
- Willing to develop further relevant skills.
- Enthusiasm
- Knowledge and Experience
- Operating word processes and computer packages.
- Audio typing / word processing
- Computer literate
- Requirements of the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act, Access to Health Records and Defensible Documentation, Health and Safety and their applications in the workplace.
- Equality Issues.
- Secretarial duties
- Medical audio typing / word processing.
- Medical terminology
- Microsoft Office
- PAS.
- GCSE English language (minimum C grade) or equivalent.
- RSA 2 word processing or equivalent.
- RSA 3 word processing or equivalent.
- NVQ 3 in administration or equivalent
- Skills & Aptitudes
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to analyse complex facts or situations.
- Able to use initiative appropriately within team environment.
- Able to work without supervision.
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
- Able to work to deadlines.
- Willing to develop further relevant skills.
- Enthusiasm
- Knowledge and Experience
- Operating word processes and computer packages.
- Audio typing / word processing
- Computer literate
- Requirements of the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act, Access to Health Records and Defensible Documentation, Health and Safety and their applications in the workplace.
- Equality Issues.
- Secretarial duties
- Medical audio typing / word processing.
- Medical terminology
- Microsoft Office
- PAS.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Team Secretary - Specialist Surgical Care Collaborative
The closing date is 06 October 2026
Job summary
Team Secretary Band 3, Cumberland Infirmary 30 hours per week
A Team Secretary role within the Specialist Surgical Care Collaborative. Ideally an experienced Team Secretary with medical terminology knowledge, as well as knowledge of NCIC admin systems and processes, including RTT pathways and Digital Dictation Systems.
Main duties of the job
The team consists of Medical Secretaries, Team Secretaries and Clerk typists, working alongside Consultants, Nurse Practitioners, etc to achieve Business Unit objectives including a 48 hour turn around of clinical letters, forward clinic preparation, minute taking and general office admin duties including phones and emails etc.
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':
Being a clinically led organisation
Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
A positive patient experience every time
A great place to work
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