# Support Secretary > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/support-secretary/a8c28b04-1bc4-4cb9-9112-b380f13047ea - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/support-secretary/a8c28b04-1bc4-4cb9-9112-b380f13047ea.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Mayo Building, Salford Royal - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical secretary - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata, per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-18T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-02T08:00:37.000Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Heywood/Northern_Care_Alliance_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Administration/Administration-v8338174 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8338174?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Support Secretary who can provide excellent secretarial and administration skills to join our dedicated Secretarial Team within the Community Paediatric Service. The role involves supporting a team of Consultants and other health professionals. You should have excellent audio typing skills and experience (preferably within an NHS setting) and be computer literate with a broad experience of Microsoft Office packages. You will need to be highly organised with a flexible approach to your work and have excellent communication and team working skills. You will need to be self-motivated to manage your own working time effectively. ### Main duties of the job To provide professional, comprehensive and confidential administrative support to the relevant health professionals and their team. This includes typing and formatting of correspondence, clinical letters, reports and policies from handwritten, dictated, paper, or electronic information in line with Trust corporate guidelines. To work collaboratively with other administrative colleagues and support staff. Audio-typing, copy typing and formatting of clinical letters and reports where follow up actions as required. appropriate; meeting timescales as directed by your line manager. To take minutes of meetings, type and distribute to all members of staff Word processing, which may include letter, memos, notes, record cards, messages and email communication. Collate, provide, receive and appropriately store (manually and electronically) sensitive and confidential information, Maintain administrative systems set up in team offices to ensure an organised and efficient working environment for staff. Responsible for assisting with the booking of team training and responsible for maintaining local training records Undertake reception duties if required. To attend meetings, training and briefing sessions appropriate to either your job specific role or, as a staff member of the Trust. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk ## Person Specification ### Essential qualifications **Essential** - Good level of general education - RSA 3 / NVQ3 or equivalent, e.g. Information technology qualification, or training or relevant business or administration qualification **Desirable** - ECDL qualification - AMSPAR qualification ### Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience **Essential** - Working experience of Microsoft software. - Producing high quality reports and documents using the necessary Microsoft Office Suite applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook). - Minute and note taking experience - Demonstrative experience working within an administrative role. - Sound knowledge of office procedures, systems and practices. - Organisational skills - Good verbal and written skills - Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with a diverse range of people, including managers, staff partners, other organisations and individuals - Ability to prioritise workload effectively - Excellent spelling, grammatical, composition and numeracy skills - Excellent keyboard skills - Planning and organisational skills to prioritise and manage own workload, working independently as required. - Audio typing experience / qualification - Ability to work flexibly - Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs - Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies **Desirable** - NHS or healthcare experience or experience of working in public sector - Experience of using an electronic patient appointment and record system - Ability to analyse large sources of data and produce into meaningful information, graphs and charts. ## Documents - [functional requirements (pdf, 176.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662064) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 1.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3016) - [sponsorship & visa information (pdf, 106.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2708) - [support secretary - administrator (pdf, 680.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662063) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.