# Medical Secretary - Dermatology

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Location:** City Health Campus
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical secretary
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 pro rata per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 21 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-13T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29T09:01:07.691Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Sandwell_West_Birmingham_NHS_Trust/Dermatology/Dermatology-v7950658
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7950658?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.swbh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you looking for a challenge?

SWB are looking for a band 4 Medical Secretary to join our team!

It would be your role to provide a comprehensive medical secretarial service to consultants and supporting teams within a busy Dermatology Service. To work collaboratively with other medical secretarial colleagues to ensure clinical correspondence is produced and distributed within timescales as per Trust Policy.

Applicants must have relevant medical secretarial experience (or AMSPAR) otherwise we will not be able to continue with your application

### Main duties of the job

Actively managing the administrative processes associated with patient pathways and contributing to the effectiveness of clinical teams (including patient experience, patient flow and waiting list management) for specialty teams.

Co-ordinating, navigating and tracking a caseload of patients efficiently and effectively through their care pathway(s) i.e. outpatients, day case, diagnostics from referral to treatment and discharge for specific specialty areas and notifying the patient administration manager of blocks and capacity issues.

Undertaking a patient advocacy role actively case managing each patient/service users journey (customer relations and key point of contact) ensuring that they have a good patient experience and flow through their pathway efficiently and effectively, including dealing with queries, concerns, complaints, access to healthcare professionals, information on appointments and admission arrangements etc.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role requirements.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Relevant medical secretarial experience (or AMSPAR)

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- GCE/GCSE English or equivalent, Grade C or above.
- RSA II Typing/Word Processing or equivalent
- AMSPAR Diploma (or relevant experience)

**Desirable**

- Shorthand qualification, 60 wpm or above.
- Audio Typing qualification.
- RSA III Typing/Word Processing or equivalent.

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 306.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10230815)
- [person specification (pdf, 96.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10230816)
- [candidate briefing pack (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2982)
- [swb reward & recognition guide (pdf, 704.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2604)
- [flexible working document – healthier futures (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2437)

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