# Support Medical Secretary - Medicine Division

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
- **Town:** Shrewsbury
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum/pro rata
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (due to medical secretary review)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday between 8am and 5pm)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-05T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22T08:51:36.094Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Shropshire/Shrewsbury/The_Shrewsbury_Telford_Hospital_NHS_Trust/Medicine_division/Medicine_division-v8173549
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8173549?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sath.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Support Medical Secretary to provide a valuable support service to medicine division at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.  The post is Band 3 and the successful candidate will be working 37.5 hours per week.

You will be able to demonstrate good communication skills, flexibility, and reliability and have an organised approach to work.  Working alongside other Medical Secretaries, the post would provide an excellent opportunity for development and progression for a motivated candidate.

Qualifications: You will hold RSA level 3 or equivalent and you must possess excellent audio typing skills.  Educated to GSCE level or equivalent.

### Main duties of the job

The post holder will produce accurate clinical and general correspondence, regularly using complex and sensitive medical terminology from audio transcription.  You will also be required to respond to telephone calls from anxious and distressed patients, responding appropriately to contentious, sensitive and difficult enquiries.  The successful applicant will gain valuable experience within a busy Medical Secretaries office and will provide an excellent opportunity for development and progression for a motivated candidate.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- High standard of grammar and spelling
- Able to prioritise
- Well organised
- Shows initiative
- Touch type

### Education

**Essential**

- 4 GCSE (Grade 9 - 4) or equivalent
- RSA Stage 3 typewriting, word processing

**Desirable**

- ECDL
- NVQ 3 Business Admin

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience in audio typing
- Secretarial procedures
- Knowledge of software programs

**Desirable**

- Medical Secretarial
- Medical terminology
- NHS Experience
- Customer Care

## Documents

- [job pack (pdf, 631.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10476040)

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