# Team Secretary > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/team-secretary/c9ba7aea-98de-4151-bc43-44b5b30f92ca - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/team-secretary/c9ba7aea-98de-4151-bc43-44b5b30f92ca.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Chalkhill - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Team secretary - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-17T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-03T13:24:45.057Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Sussex/Hailsham/Sussex_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Administration/Administration-v8071594 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8071594?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you looking for a new challenge? If yes, then read on. An opportunity has arisen in our Lansdowne Team, who are looking for an experienced Team Secretary. The role will play a key part in the administrative support to the wider clinical team, and you will need to be flexible, proactive, calm under pressure and a team player. ### Main duties of the job You will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be able to prioritise and adapt to constant demands on the workload as well as to demonstrate the ability to work as a team member. The post holder is responsible for carrying out general secretarial duties; work within set routines and processes, policies and procedures to provide a comprehensive high quality service to the service, and able to deal efficiently and courteously with patients and staff enquiries. Relevant experience working as a secretary is essential. Essential skills required for the post include – the ability to prioritise tasks, effective time management skills; excellent IT and secretarial skills; good communication, interpersonal and organisational skills. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The roles supports the clinical team with administrative and secretarial duties, including: - Typing and sending clinic letters - Using our Electronic Patient Record system - Working from a shared inbox - Booking appointments and diary management - Telephone calls to and from service users, carers, staff ### 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 ### Qualifications **Essential** - NVQ 3 or equivalent - RSA 3 or equivalent experience and evidence of further practical experience or equivalent - Good standard of secondary education; GCSE at Grade C or above or equivalent ### Knowledge/Experience **Essential** - Proven experience of a range of secretarial procedures - Experience of producing documents to a high standard of presentation with good accuracy - Experience of maintaining office systems - Experience of working as part of a team **Desirable** - Understanding of medical terminology - Proven experience of working as an administrator - Audio typing - Experience of generating own correspondence ## Documents - [privacy notice (pdf, 127.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2254) - [team secretary (pdf, 248.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10362916) ## 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.