# Medical Secretary - East Home Treatment Team

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Bodmin Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 Per Annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Role to include weekend working as part of a rota system for the wider crisis service)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-01T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18T09:11:00.674Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cornwall/Bodmin/Cornwall_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Medical_Secretary/Medical_Secretary-v8146387
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8146387?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, adaptable and well-motivated Medical Secretary to join the Home Treatment Team. The post holder should demonstrate a caring and sensitive approach to their work along with a good sense of humour.

To be part of the Home Treatment and wider Initial Response Service admin team and to ensure high levels of service are provided at all times, across the service, providing service support overall when required.

This is a full-time position working 37.5 hours per week, providing cover across 7 days on a rota system.

### Main duties of the job

- To provide a high quality secretarial service to the medical team.
- To maintain confidentiality at all times and sensitivity when dealing with contentious and complex information.
- Co-ordinate and organise action arising from correspondence and ensure prompt and efficient response, as require, by the Doctors. Co-ordination with other professionals, outside Agencies, legal staff, Trust staff etc
- Responsible for up-to-date maintenance of diaries for the medical team.
- Maintain waiting list to ensure clients are seen within key target times.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

## Person Specification

### Skills and Aptitude

**Essential**

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure whilst remaining calm
- Ability to manage own workload and work independently
- Ability to prioritise and work on own initiative

### Knowledge and Abilities

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of medical terminology
- Knowledge of the Trust's electronic information systems

### Qualifications & Experience

**Essential**

- RSA/OCR III Word-Processing or equivalent qualification or experience
- NVQ 3 Business Administration or equivalent knowledge or experience
- RSA/OCR II Audio-Typing or equivalent qualification or experience
- Computer literate with experience of spreadsheets and databases
- Previous experience of working in an office environment

**Desirable**

- Previous experience working as a secretary in the NHS

## Documents

- [autism support (pdf, 38.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=977)
- [dyslexia support (pdf, 76.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1833)
- [job description (pdf, 856.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10543616)
- [parental entitlement (pdf, 300.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1834)
- [functional requirements (pdf, 205.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10445588)
- [recruitment complaints policy (pdf, 113.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=976)

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