Support Secretary
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 11/09/2026
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 secretarial support to the Palliative and Supportive Care Teams, assisting with day-to-day clinic management and ensuring patient needs are met. Key tasks include managing clinic templates, audio typing correspondence, scanning external documents, and maintaining accurate patient records. The successful candidate will also assist with patient registration and communicate with patients and healthcare professionals.
Essential criteria
- Secondary-level education GCSW Maths and English at C-grade or above, or equivalent
- RSA/OCR typing/text transcription Stage II or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- AMSPAR Full Diploma equivalent qualification
- Previous clerical and /or secretarial experience
- Experience of working with IT office packages
- Previous clerical and/or secretarial experience in a hospital environment
- Experience of hospital administration system (PAS or equivalent)
- Audio / copy typing
- Word-processing - ability to produce accurate, well-presented work
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- The ability to manage workload and priorities competing tasks effectively
- Knowledge and familiarity with a range of software including Word, Excel, database packages, e-mail and web browsers
- Values
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Able to use own initiative
- Reliability & confidentiality
- Ability to be flexible
- Other
- To be flexible in order to meet the needs of the service and wider Central Services directorate
- Secondary-level education GCSW Maths and English at C-grade or above, or equivalent
- RSA/OCR typing/text transcription Stage II or equivalent experience
- AMSPAR Full Diploma equivalent qualification
- Previous clerical and /or secretarial experience
- Experience of working with IT office packages
- Previous clerical and/or secretarial experience in a hospital environment
- Experience of hospital administration system (PAS or equivalent)
- Audio / copy typing
- Word-processing - ability to produce accurate, well-presented work
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- The ability to manage workload and priorities competing tasks effectively
- Knowledge and familiarity with a range of software including Word, Excel, database packages, e-mail and web browsers
- Values
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Able to use own initiative
- Reliability & confidentiality
- Ability to be flexible
- Other
- To be flexible in order to meet the needs of the service and wider Central Services directorate
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.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 4d
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The Christie NHS FT
Support Secretary
The closing date is 11 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to become part of the Palliative and Supportive Care Teams, rotation will be required at times to cover other secretarial areas here at The Christie.
The successful candidate will provide a comprehensive and effective secretarial support service to the directorates' secretarial teams to assist with the day-to-day clinic management of the clinic templates. To ensure PA/secretarial duties are carried out to a high standard in order to meet patient needs and to ensure that Trust targets are always maintained. To keep accurate, up-to-date patient records; to type clinic annotations and letters and to help ensure that future appointments are made.
The successful candidate should have excellent communication skills, typing and be able to prioritise their workload.
Main duties of the job
Works closely with the clinical teams to provide comprehensive support for all clinical work within the directorate.
Work closely with clinicians to manage clinic templates including amending appointments slots, cancelling, reducing or adding new streams & adding ad hoc or new clinics onto the Patient Administration System (Careflow)
Audio typing of correspondence & results, ensuring tight turnaround times are met.
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