Location
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 per annum
Profession
Administrative assistant
Grade
Band 3
Deadline
30 Sep 2026
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
16 Sep 2026
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Job requirements

Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.

Essential

3 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Experince

    Previous secretarial experience, including diary management.

  • Qualifications

    GCSE English Garde A-C or equivalent-to include English Language and Maths

  • Qualifications

    RSA Stage II or equivalent, NVQ III or equivalent in relevant area (i.e. business administration)

Desirable

4 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • Experince

    Previous database experience

  • Experince

    Experience within NHS or similar setting

  • Qualifications

    RSA Stage II

  • Qualifications

    ECDL

Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge? Would you like to work in a rewarding, challenging and supportive team to help support the admin functions of our busy and dynamic Accident and Emergency Department?

Are you proactive, organised and looking to work within an established team and positive working environment while gaining valuable new skills? If your answers are yes please read on.

This is an exciting new opportunity for a Support Medical Secretary, 37.5 hours to be worked over 5 days Mon-Fri, working at Sandwell Health Campus. Under the guidance of our admin team leaders, you will be responsible for providing comprehensive admin support to our medical secretarial team, which will be focused on the ED consultants and medical team in ensuring the delivery of effective care and administration services, including day-to-day administration tasks such as dealing with correspondence, reports, letters, and memos and using various hospital systems.

We would welcome applications from candidates who do not hold Level 3 Business Administrator qualification, as this is something that could be offered during employment.

Main duties of the job

  • Providing admin support to Medical Secretaries
  • Using numerous hospital IT systems
  • Dealing with patient queries via emails and phone calls
  • Sending reports and clinical data to GPs
  • To undertake general admin duties, typing/photocopying/filing.
  • To provide any regular reports as required by the medical secretaries/team leader
  • Working unsupervised/with minimal support

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of what this role entails

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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This advert is for Administration Assistant with Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust in Birmingham, England. It is listed as a Band 3 Administrative assistant role. The advertised salary is £24,937 - £26,598 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Sep 2026.

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