Medical Secretary for Eating Disorder Intensive Treatment Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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
Join the Eating Disorder Intensive Treatment Team as a Medical Secretary, providing comprehensive secretarial and administrative support. This role involves diary management, audio typing, appointment coordination, and maintaining accurate patient records. You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to ensure the smooth delivery of high-quality care for individuals with eating disorders. The position requires an enthusiastic, proactive, and highly organised individual who can manage competing priorities and maintain confidentiality.
Essential criteria
- Previous experience as a medical secretary or senior administrator
- -
- Proven experience of working to a deadline
Desirable criteria
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 7d
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Medical Secretary for Eating Disorder Intensive Treatment Team
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
37.5 hours per week.
Join our friendly and dedicated Eating Disorder Intensive Treatment Team (ED-ITT) as a Medical Secretary and play a vital role in supporting a specialist service that is currently expanding through a number of exciting new developments and recruitment opportunities. This is an excellent opportunity to work alongside a Consultant Psychiatrist, GP with Specialist Interest, and a multidisciplinary team including administrators, mental health nurses, healthcare support workers, psychologists, dietitians and occupational therapists, helping to ensure the smooth delivery of high-quality care for people experiencing eating disorders.
As a key member of the team, you will provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support, including diary management, audio typing, appointment coordination, meeting organisation and maintaining accurate patient records.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive and highly organised individual who can work confidently under pressure, manage competing priorities and maintain confidentiality at all times. Previous medical secretary or senior administrative experience is desirable, together with strong IT skills and a commitment to delivering an excellent service. You will be part
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