Team Secretary
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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Role summary
An experienced Team Secretary is sought for the Lansdowne Team to provide essential administrative support to the clinical team. The role involves general secretarial duties, managing patient records, booking appointments, and handling communications with service users and staff. The successful candidate will need excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills, and the ability to work proactively and calmly under pressure.
Key responsibilities
- Typing and sending clinic letters
- Using our Electronic Patient Record system
- Working from a shared inbox
- Booking appointments and diary management
- Telephone calls to and from service users, carers, staff
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3 or equivalent
- RSA 3 or equivalent experience and evidence of further practical experience or equivalent
- Good standard of secondary education; GCSE at Grade C or above or equivalent
- Proven experience of a range of secretarial procedures
- Experience of producing documents to a high standard of presentation with good accuracy
- Experience of maintaining office systems
- Experience of working as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of medical terminology
- Proven experience of working as an administrator
- Audio typing
- Experience of generating own correspondence
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 4d ago · Closes in 11d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Team Secretary
The closing date is 17 September 2026
Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge? If yes, then read on.
An opportunity has arisen in our Lansdowne Team, who are looking for an experienced Team Secretary. The role will play a key part in the administrative support to the wider clinical team, and you will need to be flexible, proactive, calm under pressure and a team player.
Main duties of the job
You will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be able to prioritise and adapt to constant demands on the workload as well as to demonstrate the ability to work as a team member.The post holder is responsible for carrying out general secretarial duties; work within set routines and processes, policies and procedures to provide a comprehensive high quality service to the service, and able to deal efficiently and courteously with patients and staff enquiries. Relevant experience working as a secretary is essential.
Essential skills required for the post include - the ability to prioritise tasks, effective time management skills; excellent IT and secretarial skills; good communication, interpersonal and organisational skills.
About us
What we offer
- 27 days' leave plus bank holidays (rising to 29 after five and 33 after 10 years' service)
- Enhanced pay when you work unsocial ho
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