Urology Support Secretary
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Support Secretary to join the Urology Team at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves providing administrative support to Consultants and Clinical teams, including audio typing, updating Microsoft Teams, handling phone queries, and managing post and filing. The ideal candidate will be IT literate, familiar with hospital systems, and possess excellent interpersonal skills, working as a team player to ensure the department runs smoothly. Training and development opportunities are available within the established secretarial team.
Key responsibilities
- Typing audio and digital documents to include operation and clinic letters
- Maintaining investigation systems for patient results (TEAMS)
- Processing of Choose & Book referrals
- Delivery of investigation requests to other departments within the hospital
- Postal service administration for outgoing patient letters
- To cover consultant's PA desks in their absence
Essential criteria
- RSA II or equivalent touch typing/computer skills
- Minimum 5 GCSE's including English or equivalent
- Data accuracy on computer systems
- Audio typing
- Microsoft Teams
- Secretarial experience or similar
- Working with people at all levels
- NHS Medical secretary experience
- Team Player
- Effective Communicator
- Ability to organise own workload
Desirable criteria
- Computer qualification
- NVQ Level 2 in Business Administration or relevant experience.
- Experience of working with Hospital Systems
- Experience of working at UHD in a similar role
- NHS medical secretary experience
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
Urology Support Secretary
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Support Secretary to join our Urology Team at UHD. You will provide support to our Consultants and Clinical teams through administrative tasks such as audio typing, updating Teams, assisting with phone queries and organising post and filing to ensure the department runs smoothly.The post holder must be IT literate and ideally familiar with hospital computer systems including eCamis and EPR. Knowledge of Microsoft Teams would also be beneficial. 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.We offer training and development opportunities within an established Urology secretarial team which sits within the Surgical Secretariat.
This service has a planned move from Bournemouth site to Poole site on in the summer of 2027 .
Main duties of the job
- Typing audio and digital documents to include operation and clinic letters
- Maintaining investigation systems for patient results (TEAMS)
- Processing of Choose & Book referrals
- Delivery of investigation requests to other departments within the hospital
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