Medical Secretary | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Chorley / Preston, PR2 9HT |
| Cwmni: | Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7404993/438-PB3475 |
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Are you ready to bring your secretarial skills to a role that truly makes a difference? We are looking for proactive and compassionateMedical Secretaries to join our vibrant team.
You’ll be the backbone of our clinical services—supporting consultants, coordinating communications, and ensuring patients and colleagues receive a seamless experience. This is more than just admin; it’s about being a trusted partner in patient care.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love keeping things organised, and want to be part of a team that values compassion, individuality, and personal responsibility—this is the role for you.
In this varied and rewarding role, you’ll manage consultant diaries, transcribe clinical letters, and be the friendly voice for patient and GP enquiries.
You’ll help prepare meetings, maintain accurate records, and support performance targets. You may also lead and mentor support staff—sharing your knowledge and helping others grow.
From coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to streamlining admin systems, your work will help keep our services running smoothly. Every day brings new challenges and opportunities to make a real impact.
If you're organised, confident, and ready to take initiative, we’d love to welcome you to our team.
Your kind, compassionate nature and your dedication to accuracy and organisation will help us ensure we have the right information in the right place at the right time and that everyone receives a great service.
If these are the kinds of things which make you tick and you feel you excel at then please apply.
We know our application form can seem onerous, but its so important we have as much information about you as possible to help us decide who to invite to interview. Our application video can help you understand how to complete it:APPLICATION VIDEO LINK.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fantastic people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
Please see attached Job Description for a detailed description.
As there are multiple roles available, the below dutiesmay/may not be included in your complete job description but will be prevalent in most:
1.Be the point of contact for enquires from patients,GPsand 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 toappropriate person.This will includeand will not be limited to working alongside Booking services and/or waiting list,monitoringand managing theConsultant’s waiting list.
3.Maybe responsible forday-to-daymanagement and practical training of medical secretarial support staff.
4.Promote the implementation of best practice; ensure professional standards within the secretarial team aremaintainedin line with IG, national standards and legal requirements and organisational policies.
5.Manage electronic calendars, organising meetings as required andaccuratemaintenance of an electronic diary with effective communication of diary commitments.
6.Collation of papers for consultants in support of the preparation for meetings/presentation or the development of reports etc
7.Provide secretarial / administrative services toConsultantsand their clinical team by perusing and distributing incoming correspondence,disseminatinginformation, composing reports and correspondence,maintainingup-to-date filing systems, bookingsystemsand continuously developing administrative practices to ensure order and efficiency in the office
8.Plan and organise own work andallocatework to the Support Secretary and Typist, ensuring files and papers are available and up to date, providing briefings for the day’s activities, highlighting deadlines and potential conflicts of interest.
9.Maintainefficient and effective administrative systems, including bring forward, and message taking.
10.Assist in the recruitment andselectionof staff within area of responsibility and the organisation of induction and orientation/training programmes.
11.Typing of letters or other correspondence.This may include audio typingwhereappropriate.
12.Use databases and computer packages whereappropriate toinitiateand maintain records and generateinformationfor analytical purposes.
13.Utilisation of local or Trust case note tracking systemand other systems whereappropriate.
14.Ensure that up to date information is availableregardingactivity within all departments so that queries can be answered promptly and accurately.
15. Supporting the divisional team with meeting local and national performance standards.
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.
This advert closes on Thursday 21 Aug 2025