# Breast Screening Medical Secretary

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Worthing
- **Region:** South East
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 9-5)
- **Closing date:** 2026-06-19T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-06-05T10:43:33.648Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Sussex/Brighton/University_Hospitals_Sussex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Breast_Screening/Breast_Screening-v8061963
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8061963?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for a proactive person with administrative experience to join a friendly team as part of the integrated Breast Service.  The role will provide secretarial support to the management of the Breast Screening Programmes in both East and West Sussex based at the Park Centre for Breast Care with occasional travel to the Breast unit in Worthing.

### Main duties of the job

Provide an efficient, effective medical secretarial service to the Breast Screening Department in both East Sussex Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, supporting the service with contract maintenance, rota systems, facilities lead for both screening services, organising meetings and taking minutes and pulling data.

Use the National Breast Screening Service database and CRIS system to ensure that the service runs in accordance with policy.

To review the contracts, ensuring you communicate when they are up for renewal and working with internal and external services to extend or renew contracts whilst keeping master copies up to date.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. We include this information at the outset to provide clarity and avoid unnecessary inconvenience for applicants.

If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.

Provide an efficient, effective medical secretarial service to the Breast Screening Department in both East Sussex Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, supporting the service with contract maintenance, rota systems, facilities lead for both screening services, organising meetings and taking minutes and pulling data.

Use the National Breast Screening Service database and CRIS system to ensure that the service runs in accordance with policy.

To review the contracts, ensuring you communicate when they are up for renewal and working with internal and external services to extend or renew contracts whilst keeping master copies up to date.

## Job Details

We are looking for a proactive person with administrative experience to join a friendly team as part of the integrated Breast Service. The role will provide secretarial support to the management of the Breast Screening Programmes in both East and West Sussex based at the Park Centre for Breast Care with occasional travel to the Breast unit in Worthing.

## Job Description

Provide an efficient, effective medical secretarial service to the Breast Screening Department in both East Sussex Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, supporting the service with contract maintenance, rota systems, facilities lead for both screening services, organising meetings and taking minutes and pulling data.

Use the National Breast Screening Service database and CRIS system to ensure that the service runs in accordance with policy.

To review the contracts, ensuring you communicate when they are up for renewal and working with internal and external services to extend or renew contracts whilst keeping master copies up to date.

## Responsibilities

Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. We include this information at the outset to provide clarity and avoid unnecessary inconvenience for applicants.

If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.

Provide an efficient, effective medical secretarial service to the Breast Screening Department in both East Sussex Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, supporting the service with contract maintenance, rota systems, facilities lead for both screening services, organising meetings and taking minutes and pulling data.

Use the National Breast Screening Service database and CRIS system to ensure that the service runs in accordance with policy.

To review the contracts, ensuring you communicate when they are up for renewal and working with internal and external services to extend or renew contracts whilst keeping master copies up to date.

## Person Specification

### Experience and Qualifications

**Essential**

- Extensive secretarial and administrative experience in a medical environment
- Experience of dealing with the general public
- Maths & English GCSE
- Experience of Microsoft office and Teams

**Desirable**

- Experience of working with quality management systems/quality assurance
- Experience of working with in Breast Screening Programme and systems
- Communication skills – ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels
- Organisational skills, minute taking arranging meetings

### Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

**Essential**

- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 512.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10352306)
- [all staff networks about us flyer (pdf, 304.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2583)
- [guide to completing an application form (pdf, 385.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2915)

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