Support Secretary - Specialist Nursing Teams
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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 Support Secretary role provides efficient secretarial service to the Specialist Nursing Teams in Respiratory (DAIRS, Lung Care & TB Service) at Bournemouth Hospital. The role involves managing a shared email box and handling telephone enquiries, communicating with patients who have specific lung problems, including those with cancer or suspected cancer. Applicants need broad administration skills, demonstrable typing skills, excellent communication, attention to detail, and a team-oriented approach.
Essential criteria
- Qualifications GCSE in English and Maths or Vocational level 3 in a relevant field
- Experience as working as a medical secretary
- Other Requirements Good verbal and written skills
Desirable criteria
- Minute taking skills
- Technical Skills
- Computer literate with word processing experience
- Understanding Secretarial procedures & MS Word
- Audio Typing
- NHS Experience
- Good verbal & written skills
- Team Player
- Well presented
- Personal attributes
- Ability to deal with sensitive issues like cancer
- Ability to organise own work load
- Prioritisation
- Guidance
- Qualifications GCSE in English and Maths or Vocational level 3 in a relevant field
- Experience as working as a medical secretary
- Other Requirements Good verbal and written skills
- Minute taking skills
- Technical Skills
- Computer literate with word processing experience
- Understanding Secretarial procedures & MS Word
- Audio Typing
- NHS Experience
- Good verbal & written skills
- Team Player
- Well presented
- Personal attributes
- Ability to deal with sensitive issues like cancer
- Ability to organise own work load
- Prioritisation
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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University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Support Secretary - Specialist Nursing Teams
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
We'reexcited to offer this opportunity within our Admin & Clerical workforce.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Support Secretary in the Respiratory Department at Bournemouth Hospital.
This Support Secretary role plays a vital role as it is to provide an efficient secretarial service to the Specialist Nursing Teams in Respiratory (DAIRS, Lung Care & TB Service) and to support colleagues during absence. The role deals with answering enquiries of the shared email box and telephone work in communicating with patients who have specific lung problems some of which have cancer or suspected cancer.
Applicants will have a broad spectrum of administration skills and demonstrable typing skills. In addition to this, applicants should have excellent communication skills, attention to detail and a willingness to work as part of a team.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital & Poole (if required)
Interview Date - 13th October 2026
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
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