Medical Secretary (XN03)
| Posting date: | 17 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £25,760.00 to £27,476.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £25760.00 - £27476.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 April 2026 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9298-AMS-385 |
Summary
To provide a comprehensive and high quality medical secretarial service to support Clinical Nurse Specialist within the Urology Oncology / Benign Service. The Urology Service also consists of a large Urology clinical team (Consultants, their medical teams e.g. junior medical staff as appropriate) in delivering high quality care to the patients of Leeds and beyond. This role will additionally make a key contribution in improving the patient experience by supporting Directorate teams with the movement of patients through their 18-week pathway or other national waiting time standards as appropriate. Duties and responsibilities Clinical Correspondence & Support to patients and other Clinical Services. Typing/proof reading clinical correspondence relating to outpatient attendances and other patient related correspondence on behalf of the CNS Service. Use a range of IT skills to support the clinical work of the consultant e.g. use of databases and spread sheets. Support administrative process as deemed appropriate by the Senior Secretary. To support the CNS Teams in the delivery of excellent patient care by actively working with colleagues and other departments to ensure that all patients registered within the service are proactively supported through their patient journey. Answer phone calls and deal with enquiries relating to patients and clinical work from a variety of sources, directly resolving where possible or transferring to appropriate personnel. Liaise with GPs, hospital staff and others on behalf of CNS in relation to clinical workload. Provide information to Senior Medical Secretary, as appropriate, relating to workload and work outstanding. Provide secretarial / admin cover for other members in the team when staff are taking annual leave or sick leave. Prolonged periods of concentration are required for transcribing or proof-reading medical correspondence and using patient related information. This may frequently be interrupted with phone calls or via face-to-face contact with other members of the team. The post holder will be handling sensitive patient-related information on a daily basis and as such may be regularly (daily) subjected to difficult and emotional situations such as serious illness, bereavement or anxious family members.