Team Secretary - Specialty Medicine
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Job share
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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 is a Team Secretary role within Specialty Medicine, working 37.5 hours at Cumberland Infirmary. The successful candidate will support Medical Secretaries, Team Secretaries, and Clerk typists, working alongside Consultants and Nurse Practitioners. Key responsibilities include ensuring a 48-hour turnaround of clinical letters, forward clinic preparation, minute-taking, and general office administration. Experience with medical terminology and NCIC admin systems is ideal.
Essential criteria
- GCSE English language (minimum C grade) or equivalent.
- RSA 2 word processing or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- RSA 3 word processing or equivalent.
- NVQ 3 in administration or equivalent
- Skills & Aptitudes
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to analyse complex facts or situations.
- Able to use initiative appropriately within team environment.
- Able to work without supervision.
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
- Able to work to deadlines.
- Willing to develop further relevant skills.
- Enthusiasm
- Knowledge and Experience
- Operating word processes and computer packages.
- Audio typing / word processing
- Computer literate
- Requirements of the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act, Access to Health Records and Defensible Documentation, Health and Safety and their applications in the workplace.
- Equality Issues.
- Secretarial duties
- Medical audio typing / word processing.
- Medical terminology
- Microsoft Office
- PAS.
- GCSE English language (minimum C grade) or equivalent.
- RSA 2 word processing or equivalent.
- RSA 3 word processing or equivalent.
- NVQ 3 in administration or equivalent
- Skills & Aptitudes
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to analyse complex facts or situations.
- Able to use initiative appropriately within team environment.
- Able to work without supervision.
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
- Able to work to deadlines.
- Willing to develop further relevant skills.
- Enthusiasm
- Knowledge and Experience
- Operating word processes and computer packages.
- Audio typing / word processing
- Computer literate
- Requirements of the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act, Access to Health Records and Defensible Documentation, Health and Safety and their applications in the workplace.
- Equality Issues.
- Secretarial duties
- Medical audio typing / word processing.
- Medical terminology
- Microsoft Office
- PAS.
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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North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Team Secretary - Specialty Medicine
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
Team Secretary band 3, 37.5 hours Cumberland Infirmary
A Team Secretary role within Specialty Medicine. Ideally an experienced Team Secretary with medical terminology knowledge, as well as knowledge of NCIC admin systems and processes, including RTT pathways and T-Pro.
Main duties of the job
The team consists of Medical Secretaries, Team Secretaries and Clerk typists, working alongside Consultants, Nurse Practitioners, etc to achieve Business Unit objectives including a 48 hour turn around of clinical letters, forward clinic preparation, minute taking and general office admin duties including phones and emails etc.
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':
Being a clinically led organisation
Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
A positive patient experience every time
A great place to work
Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about support
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