Senior Medical Secretary

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 21 April 2025

Job summary

Are you a highly motivated, dynamic, and organised Medical Secretary looking for a new opportunity?

The team supports a team of consultants who are based in Harrogate.

As Team Leader, you will provide day to day supervision and coordination of a small team, ensuring high standards are consistently achieved.

As Medical secretary you will provide comprehensive, confidential secretarial and administrative support in our extremely busy department, you will be a great team player, excellent interpersonal skills, and will be able to work under pressure to set deadlines. As such you must already be an experienced Medical Secretary.

This is a service that is critical to ensuring high quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

Providing secretarial/administration service to the Consultants and medical teams.
Leading the team using initiative, experience and leadership skills.
Accurately co-ordinating medical information to expedite the continuing care of patients.
Taking responsibility for the successful organisation of the Secretarial/PA workload using time management, planning and organising skills.
Use initiative and maintain a high level of confidentiality and diplomacy at all times without immediate access to line supervision.

About us

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.

At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!

We offer colleagues:

A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
Employee Support and wellbeing - we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.

Please note:

Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications
Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.

Date posted

07 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

421-PSC-2031S

Job locations

Harrogate Hospital

Lancaster Park Road

Harrogate

HG2 7SX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description or contact Charlotte Donnelly at charlotte.donnelly@nhs.net for and informal discussion.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description or contact Charlotte Donnelly at charlotte.donnelly@nhs.net for and informal discussion.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

5 GCSEs or equivalent including English at Grade C or above
RSA III Typewriting, word processing or equivalent
Knowledge of a range of software programmes, understanding of medical terminology

Desirable

Association of Medical Secretaries Diploma, or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Recent significant previous hospital, healthcare or NHS experience in a medical secretary role (1 year or more)
Excellent word-processing, audio and touch typing skills
Experience working in a team
Able to/previous experience of leading a team

Desirable

Experience of working in a variety of different medical secretary roles

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

5 GCSEs or equivalent including English at Grade C or above
RSA III Typewriting, word processing or equivalent
Knowledge of a range of software programmes, understanding of medical terminology

Desirable

Association of Medical Secretaries Diploma, or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Recent significant previous hospital, healthcare or NHS experience in a medical secretary role (1 year or more)
Excellent word-processing, audio and touch typing skills
Experience working in a team
Able to/previous experience of leading a team

Desirable

Experience of working in a variety of different medical secretary roles

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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