Medical Secretary
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an office-based Medical Secretary role within the Histopathology Department at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. The department processes around 83,000 patient requests annually, providing diagnostic reports. The role supports medical secretaries and consultant pathologists, acting as a key contact point and handling correspondence. It's an opportunity to learn administrative practices within a busy, modern, and accredited laboratory service.
Essential criteria
- Working as part of a team
- Previous secretarial/office work including working with computers
Desirable criteria
- Working to deadlines
- Keyboard skills accurate fast typist - knowledge of Microsoft office
- Remain calm under pressure - patience with patients
- Preference for working closely with and supporting a multi-disciplinary team
- Attitude, aptitude
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
- Good general standard of literacy and numeracy
- Working as part of a team
- Previous secretarial/office work including working with computers
- Working to deadlines
- Keyboard skills accurate fast typist - knowledge of Microsoft office
- Remain calm under pressure - patience with patients
- Preference for working closely with and supporting a multi-disciplinary team
- Attitude, aptitude
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
- Good general standard of literacy and numeracy
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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Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Medical Secretary
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
This is an office-based post within the Histopathology Department (located at the Cotman Centre), which forms part of the Cellular Pathology directorate. The department has a workload of around 83,000 patient requests per year. This presents an opportunity to be part of an excellent team working in a busy, modern, progressive hospital laboratory service.
Histopathology receives and processes patient samples to provide diagnostic reports to hospital clinicians and General Practitioners. This is a good opportunity to learn administrative work practices and work with a committed team of office, laboratory and consultant staff.
The service is currently moving towards a full digital pathology reporting system and has UKAS ISO 15189 accreditation.
Main duties of the job
The role will provide an important supporting role to the medical secretaries and consultant pathologists. Your main duties will include:
To provide an essential point of contact between the hospital, medical staff, general practitioners and other outside agencies.
Accurately transcribe from audio dictation, all correspondence to GPs, other hospitals and outside agencies relating to the patient pathway. Process routine and non-routine correspondence independently.
Verify the accuracy of all r
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