Support Medical Secretary - Digestive Emergency Surgical Care Group
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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 part-time permanent position is for an experienced and motivated support medical secretary to join the Digestive Emergency Surgical Care Group. The role involves providing comprehensive administrative and audio typing services, managing daily workloads, and ensuring efficient patient care coordination. The successful candidate will work within an established secretarial team across multiple hospital sites, primarily based at Aintree.
Essential criteria
- Educated to GCSE/O Level standard/equivalent
- RSA/OCR Level II or equivalent
- Word Processing/Audio typing Skills
- Knowledge of medical terminology and secretarial procedures
- Excellent I.T. skills with knowledge and experience of all Microsoft office packages
- Experience working in an NHS office environment
- Skills/Ability/Knowledge
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to use own initiative and respond to new challenges
- Self motivated and able to work with limited supervision
- Manage/prioritise own workload
- Ability to accurately maintain computerise and manual filing/documentation system
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to manage difficult/sensitive situations
- Ability and willingness to undertake further training as required
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of internal PAS system
- Ability to supervise and motivate a team
- Time management skills
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
- Understanding of Trust internal policies as appropriate
- Qualities/Attributes
- Able to adopt flexible approach when required
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships
- Other
- Understanding of confidential nature of role and awareness of Data Protection Act
- Educated to GCSE/O Level standard/equivalent
- RSA/OCR Level II or equivalent
- Word Processing/Audio typing Skills
- Knowledge of medical terminology and secretarial procedures
- Excellent I.T. skills with knowledge and experience of all Microsoft office packages
- Experience working in an NHS office environment
- Skills/Ability/Knowledge
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to use own initiative and respond to new challenges
- Self motivated and able to work with limited supervision
- Manage/prioritise own workload
- Ability to accurately maintain computerise and manual filing/documentation system
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to manage difficult/sensitive situations
- Ability and willingness to undertake further training as required
- Knowledge of internal PAS system
- Ability to supervise and motivate a team
- Time management skills
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
- Understanding of Trust internal policies as appropriate
- Qualities/Attributes
- Able to adopt flexible approach when required
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships
- Other
- Understanding of confidential nature of role and awareness of Data Protection Act
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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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Support Medical Secretary - Digestive Emergency Surgical Care Group
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
A part time position has arisen for an experienced, well-motivated and enthusiastic support secretary to join the Digestive Emergency Surgical Care Group. The appointee will work within an established secretarial team who have a commitment to improve our patient experience.
The successful applicant must be able to undertake all administrative duties, be well organised, able to plan their own workload, work on their own initiative and work to strict deadlines.
It is expected that applicants will have appropriate experience working in a medical environment and have a good understanding and knowledge of medical terminology and audio typing ; experience in the use of EPRO (clinic letter tool) would be advantageous.
Digestive and Emergency Surgery is based across three sites ; Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. The successful candidate will be required to provide support across site with a base at the Aintree site.
Main duties of the job
To provide a comprehensive administration/audio typing service in dealing effectively and efficiently with processing of daily workloads, and ad hoc office duties. Ensure cross cover working where poss
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