Medical Secretary
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 15
- Posted
- 07/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Medical Secretary to join the Specialist Outreach Recovery Team (SORT) based at Avon House, Mount Gould Hospital. This role involves supporting mental health Consultants with administrative duties such as audio typing, scheduling appointments, maintaining patient records, and organising meetings. The successful candidate will need proficient keyboard skills, excellent communication, and organisational abilities, and a positive attitude towards individuals experiencing mental health difficulties. This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months, working 15 hours per week.
Essential criteria
- Proven secretarial and administrative experience.
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- Ability to effectively use all Microsoft packages:
- Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Microsoft Teams.
- Good understanding of confidentiality and data protection.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- -
- Understanding of Out-Patient, admission and
- waiting list procedures including RTT.
- -
- Demonstrable experience of hospital software
- e.g. SystmOne/iPM
- 5 GCSEs (grades A-C) or equivalent, including English and Maths
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- NVQ level 3 in Business Administration/relevant subject or able to demonstrate significant previous knowledge and experience.
- ECDL.
- IT qualification.
- AMSPAR Diploma.
- Secretarial/word processing qualifications.
- RSA 2 in Typewriting or equivalent skills, knowledge, and experience.
- Previous experience as a Medical Secretary or Senior Administrator.
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- Proven experience of working to a deadline.
- Secretarial/significant administrative experience in a hospital or clinical setting.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
- Specific skills
- Excellent audio typing and computer skills.
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- Excellent written and verbal
- communication skills.
- Excellent organisational skills
- and ability to prioritise workload, using initiative where appropriate.
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- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Able to communicate effectively with senior medical staff and service leads.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to work supervised and
- unsupervised.
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- Ability and willingness to work flexibly to meet service need requirements.
- Ability to deal with multiple requests from consultants and doctors and prioritise accordingly.
- Ability to accurately touch type.
- Ability to
- communicate to people in crisis on the telephone.
- Proven secretarial and administrative experience.
- -
- Ability to effectively use all Microsoft packages:
- Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Microsoft Teams.
- Good understanding of confidentiality and data protection.
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- -
- Understanding of Out-Patient, admission and
- waiting list procedures including RTT.
- -
- Demonstrable experience of hospital software
- e.g. SystmOne/iPM
- 5 GCSEs (grades A-C) or equivalent, including English and Maths
- -
- NVQ level 3 in Business Administration/relevant subject or able to demonstrate significant previous knowledge and experience.
- ECDL.
- IT qualification.
- AMSPAR Diploma.
- Secretarial/word processing qualifications.
- RSA 2 in Typewriting or equivalent skills, knowledge, and experience.
- Previous experience as a Medical Secretary or Senior Administrator.
- -
- Proven experience of working to a deadline.
- Secretarial/significant administrative experience in a hospital or clinical setting.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
- Specific skills
- Excellent audio typing and computer skills.
- -
- Excellent written and verbal
- communication skills.
- Excellent organisational skills
- and ability to prioritise workload, using initiative where appropriate.
- -
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Able to communicate effectively with senior medical staff and service leads.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to work supervised and
- unsupervised.
- -
- Ability and willingness to work flexibly to meet service need requirements.
- Ability to deal with multiple requests from consultants and doctors and prioritise accordingly.
- Ability to accurately touch type.
- Ability to
- communicate to people in crisis on the telephone.
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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Livewell Southwest
Medical Secretary
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
15 hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly
motivated and enthusiastic Medical Secretary to join the Specialist Outreach
Recovery Team (SORT) based at Avon House, Mount Gould Hospital.
The Specialist
Outreach Recovery Team has a positive approach to supporting service users in
their mental health personal recovery.
The team deliver a wide range of recovery interventions and treatment to
people experiencing complex mental health difficulties. We are a multi-disciplinary
team of Consultant Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Nurses, Occupational Therapists,
Psychologists, Support Workers and other key professionals.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route; please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.
Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7-day service.
Job share(s) considered.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be
to support the mental health Consultants with duties including audio typing of
clinic dictations, arranging and re-sch
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