Team Secretary
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 15
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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.
“Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Please ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This part-time Team Secretary role, based at Westminster Memorial Hospital, involves providing comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Community Mental Health Team. Key duties include managing telephone calls, processing referrals, arranging appointments, and taking minutes at various meetings. The successful candidate will need well-developed IT skills, experience in an office environment, and a compassionate telephone manner. This role is for 15 hours per week.
Essential criteria
- RSA Stage II (2) Min.
- 5 GCSEs or equivalent (2)
Desirable criteria
- NVQ 2 Business Administration (2)
- Shorthand Qualification (2)
- Job Specific experience
- Ability to organise own work schedule
- Secretarial experience
- Experience and competence with using various computer software packages
- Skills and ability
- Excellent typing skills
- Ability to learn/use integrated patient information systems
- Personal Skills
- Very good organisation skills/diary management
- Able to work using own initiative
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Good telephone and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge, Skills and Training
- RSA Stage II (2) Min.
- 5 GCSEs or equivalent (2)
- NVQ 2 Business Administration (2)
- Shorthand Qualification (2)
- Job Specific experience
- Ability to organise own work schedule
- Secretarial experience
- Experience and competence with using various computer software packages
- Skills and ability
- Excellent typing skills
- Ability to learn/use integrated patient information systems
- Personal Skills
- Very good organisation skills/diary management
- Able to work using own initiative
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Good telephone and interpersonal skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £10,304 – £10,990 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Team Secretary
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a motivated and enthusiastic Team Secretary? The Community Mental Health Team based at Westminster Memorial Hospital in Shaftesbury would like to hear from you. This is a part-time post for 15 hours per week, covering a wide range of secretarial and administrative duties.
In this role, you will provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to a busy team. You will be responsible for managing a range of day-to-day administrative tasks, ensuring processes and procedures are followed efficiently. You will have well-developed IT skills, a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, and proven experience in an office-based environment.
Key responsibilities include handling telephone calls, processing referrals using our RIO system, arranging appointments for clinicians, responding to enquiries, and providing administrative support to the wider team. You will also be responsible for taking minutes at meetings, including multidisciplinary team (MDT), Best Interest, and MARM meetings, as well as audio and copy typing letters, reports, and meeting minutes.
We work with vulnerable people, so a compassionate telephone manner is essential. Previous NHS experience and experience of using the Rio patient records system will be an advantage. Be
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