Renal Medical Secretary, Band 3
| Posting date: | 22 April 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: | 05 May 2026 |
| Location: | Gloucester, GL1 3NN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9318-26-0350 |
Summary
The Medical Secretary is responsible for: - Providing a comprehensive secretarial and administrative service to medical staff and their supporting team. - Providing cover for colleagues in their absence to maintain service levels - Ensuring excellent communication is provided to patients, relatives, general practitioners and other hospital staff to ensure a proficient, high-quality service for patients and clinicians. - Ensuring all clinics are used to their full capacity and that any vacant slots are fully utilised and acted upon, including informing the Booking Office, to maximise capacity - Regularly informing the secretarial supervisor about progress and flags up as a matter of urgency any issues, for example, capacity or delays due to internal or external factors, difficult queries from patients, etc - Managing the pathway for patients referred in under the two-week wait ensuring they are monitored to minimise/avoid breach - Carrying out regular review and administrative validation of the clinicians return outpatient wait list - Supporting the achievement of Trust performance by ensuring administrative standards are met e.g., typing times, test results passed to clinician and any potential 52-week breaches are escalated to the clinician, secretarial supervisor or AGM/DGM to avoid breach - Ensuring all clinic cancellations/alterations are dealt with efficiently and in line with the Trusts 8 week annual/study leave policy.