Colorectal PA Consultant Secretary
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 03/09/2026
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 role involves providing comprehensive medical secretarial support to Colorectal Consultants and nursing staff. Key duties include managing diaries, tracking patient results, booking appointments, and maintaining patient records. The ideal candidate will have strong office practice knowledge, medical terminology, and excellent interpersonal skills. This position offers training and development within an established secretarial team.
Essential criteria
- RSA II or equivalent touch typing/computer skills
- Minimum 5 GCSE's including English or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Computer Qualification
- Secretarial Experience
- Experience working with MS Teams
- Working with people
- UHD Experience
- Good verbal and written skills (attention to detail)
- Technical Skills
- Good knowledge of IT systems and software
- Outlook/Word/Excel/Teams/PowerPoint
- Data accuracy on computer systems
- Experience of hospital systems (eCamis/EPR/Teams)
- Audio typing
- Understanding of secretarial procedures
- Medical Terminology
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act
- patient management systems
- RSA II or equivalent touch typing/computer skills
- Minimum 5 GCSE's including English or equivalent
- Computer Qualification
- Secretarial Experience
- Experience working with MS Teams
- Working with people
- UHD Experience
- Good verbal and written skills (attention to detail)
- Technical Skills
- Good knowledge of IT systems and software
- Outlook/Word/Excel/Teams/PowerPoint
- Data accuracy on computer systems
- Experience of hospital systems (eCamis/EPR/Teams)
- Audio typing
- Understanding of secretarial procedures
- Medical Terminology
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act
- patient management systems
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 13d ago · Closes in 5d
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University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Colorectal PA Consultant Secretary
The closing date is 03 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an experienced secretary to join the Colorectal Secretarial team. This role offers excellent opportunities for an enthusiastic and conscientious person to provide a comprehensive medical secretarial service to consultants, junior medical and specialist nursing staff in an efficient and timely manner, assisting in the organisation of their workload and contributing to the overall success of the service.
The ideal candidate must have a good knowledge of office practices and medical terminology alongside excellent interpersonal skills and be reliable and flexible with the ability to work under pressure and above all be a team player.
We offer training and development opportunities within an established Vascular secretarial team which sits within the Surgical Secretariat.
Main duties of the job
Providing a full support service to Colorectal Consultants and Clinical Nursing team, to include - diary management, clinic management, tracking patient results and booking appointments, inputting on to hospital systems to maintain complete patient records and follow up investigations etc.
Audio Typing
Managing patient results / investigations
TEAMS
Scanning, uploading documents
Telephone enquiries
Post & referrals
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