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Support Secretary
| Posting date: | 07 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,937.00 to £26,598.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24937.00 - £26598.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 August 2025 |
| Location: | Chorley / Preston, PR2 9HT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9438-25-0403 |
Summary
Please see attached Job Description for a detailed description. Duties include: 1. Be the point of contact for enquires from patients, GPs and other outside parties, referring where necessary to more senior staff. 2. Respond to external and internal telephone queries from staff, patients and others and referring to appropriate person. 3. Manage electronic calendars, organising meetings as required and accurate maintenance of an electronic diary with effective communication of diary commitments. 4. Coordinate meetings. This occasionally requires arranging venues and refreshments for off-site meetings. This may include the taking of minutes. 5. Provide the admin support to the Outpatient Clinics and process urgent A&E and ward referrals. 6. Provide secretarial / administrative services by perusing and distributing incoming correspondence and patient results, disseminating information, composing reports and correspondence, maintaining up-to-date filing systems and continuously developing administrative practices. 7. Maintain efficient and effective administrative systems, including bring forward, and message taking. 8. Provide secretarial and administrative support and cover when other members of the Secretary Team are absent from sickness or annual leave. 9. Typing of letters or other correspondence. This may include audio typing where appropriate. 10. Use databases and computer packages where appropriate to initiate and maintain records and generate information for analytical purposes. 11. Utilisation of local or Trust case note tracking system and other systems where appropriate. For further information on the positions we have available, please see attached Vacancy Sheet. If there are any positions that you feel would suit you, please stipulate in your application.