Breast Care Administrator/Secretary
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing high-quality administrative and secretarial support to Breast Surgery consultants within the Breast Unit. Key responsibilities include medical transcription, managing patient pathways, and handling general office duties. The successful candidate will need excellent communication, organization, and typing skills, along with the ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines. Previous secretarial experience is essential, and the role requires working as part of a team.
Essential criteria
- General education to GCSE standard including English or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Secretarial/NVQ qualification or equivalent
- Secretarial experience and/or previous NHS experience
- Proven experience of working to deadlines
- Medical secretarial experience
- Multi-disciplinary team working
- Skills/Knowledge
- Written and oral communication
- Speed/accuracy keyboard skills
- Self motivated with the ability to manage own workload
- Ability to prioritise completing tasks
- Organised
- Interpersonal skills
- General education to GCSE standard including English or equivalent
- Secretarial/NVQ qualification or equivalent
- Secretarial experience and/or previous NHS experience
- Proven experience of working to deadlines
- Medical secretarial experience
- Multi-disciplinary team working
- Skills/Knowledge
- Written and oral communication
- Speed/accuracy keyboard skills
- Self motivated with the ability to manage own workload
- Ability to prioritise completing tasks
- Organised
- Interpersonal skills
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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Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Breast Care Administrator/Secretary
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Breast Unit as an Administrator/Secretary.
The ideal candidate will have excellent communication and organization skills, strong typing skills and knowledge of medical terminology to ensure provision of a high quality and efficient administrative/secretarial service to the Breast Surgery consultants .
Your role will also involve assisting in the management of referral to treatment (RTT) and cancer pathways; working with the management and clinical teams to ensure delays are resolved and pathways are managed appropriately.
You must have good attention to detail together with the ability to prioritise your own workload to meet deadlines. Duties will include dealing with telephone enquiries, letters, email, diaries, chasing deadlines, collation of information/results for reports and typing of clinic letters.
You should have previous secretarial experience as well as being flexible and able to work as part of a team. In return we will provide a comprehensive induction with a view to developing knowledge and skills where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide medical transcription and administrative support on attachment to clinical teams; guided by standard ope
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