# Medical Support Secretary - Elderly Medicine

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Bolton
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 25 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-18T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04T14:10:37.016Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Bolton/Bolton_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Administration_Clerical/Administration_Clerical-v8205909
- **Employer website:** https://www.boltonft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Part time 25 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Medical Support Secretary in the Elderly Medicine Department at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated individual with excellent typing and organisational skills and experience of working to deadlines to provide secretarial support for the department.

### Main duties of the job

The main duties of this post will be supporting the senior secretarial team in the daily typing of clinical correspondence, logging and chasing of diagnostic requests and general secretarial duties and providing cover for colleagues during periods of annual leave and sickness and ensuring the department continues to meet its targets

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding the key responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description. If you have any further questions regarding this role, please do not hesitate to contact us via the information below.

### 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

### Skills

**Essential**

- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to appreciate the needs of patients, carers and healthcare staff
- Excellent communication skills
- Competent in the use of Microsoft Office

**Desirable**

- Ability to use NHS patient administration systems
- Audio typing skills

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Understanding of NHS
- Knowledge of medical terms

**Desirable**

- Understanding of medical terminology with more than one specialty

### Experience

**Essential**

- Secretarial experience
- Experience of working with a variety of professionals

**Desirable**

- Experience as a medical support secretary in a health care setting

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- English language GCSE grade C or above or equivalent qualification
- Mathematics GCSE grade C or above or equivalent qualification
- RSA Level 2 word processing or equivalent

**Desirable**

- Medical Secretarial AMSPAR qualification of equivalent
- RSA Level 3 Word Processing and Text Processing

## Documents

- [open letter (pdf, 235.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2681)
- [applicants with a disability (pdf, 207.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1983)
- [welcome to bolton nhs foundation trust (pdf, 774.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3041)
- [medical support secretary - elderly medicine (pdf, 496.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10512439)

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