BESS PA Consultant Secretary
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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 consultants, junior medical, and specialist nursing staff within the BESS team. Key duties include diary and clinic management, note-taking, tracking patient results, and managing appointments. The successful candidate will need strong office practice knowledge, medical terminology, and excellent interpersonal skills to ensure efficient service delivery. This position requires a conscientious team player capable of working under pressure.
Key responsibilities
- Provide full secretarial support to BESS Consultants and Clinical Nursing team, including diary and clinic management.
- Perform audio typing of clinical correspondence such as MDT minutes, clinic letters, and reports.
- Manage patient results and investigations, ensuring accurate tracking and filing.
- Handle telephone enquiries, post, and referrals efficiently.
- Understand and proactively manage RTT (Referral to Treatment) pathways to prevent breaches and ensure timely patient progression.
- Maintain confidentiality and adhere to Trust policies, including infection prevention and control.
Essential criteria
- RSA II or equivalent touch typing/computer skills
- Minimum 5 GCSE's including English or equivalent
- Secretarial Experience
- Experience working with MS Teams
- NHS medical secretary experience
- Good knowledge of IT systems and software
- Outlook/Word/Excel/Teams/PowerPoint
- Data accuracy on computer systems
- Understanding of secretarial procedures
- Medical Terminology
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act
Desirable criteria
- Computer Qualification
- NVQ Level 2 in Business Administration or relevant experience
- Working with people
- UHD Experience
- Good verbal and written skills (attention to detail)
- Experience of hospital systems (eCamis/EPR/Teams)
- Audio typing
- 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.
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University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
BESS PA Consultant Secretary
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an experienced secretary to join the BESS 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.
Interview: TBD
Main duties of the job
Providing a full support service to BESS Consultants and Clinical Nursing team, to include - diary management, clinic management, note taking, MDT meetings, 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
RTT management
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