Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9 to 5)
- Job ref
- 326-6771681-SL
- Employer
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Redhill
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum plus high cost allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/03/2025
Employer heading
Medical Secretary
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, Surrey
Staff Group: Medicine Division
Department: Medicine Specialties
Hours: 37.5 Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00
Job Type: Permanent
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two experienced Band 4 Medical Secretaries to join the Medicine Divisional Secretarial Team at East Surrey Hospital. The purpose of the role is to deliver a comprehensive and effective secretarial and administrative service to our patients, teams of consultants and clinical nurse specialists.
The successful candidates will need to be highly motivated and able to work in a very pressurised environment. The successful candidates must be able to prioritise their own workload effectively and efficiently and possess excellent organisational, communication and customer service skills. Team working is essential for cover arrangements between the secretarial teams within departments alongside cover arrangements across the various clinical services within the medicine division as and when required.
For further information please contact Lucy Burton on 01737 768511 ext 2900 or Maria Vazquez-Tojeiro on 01737 768511 ext 2413
Main duties of the job
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
- Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
- National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
- We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information, regarding the role please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.
Person specification
criteria
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- • A complete and accurate application
- • Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- • Evidence of essential experience for role
- • Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- • Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- • Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- • Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucy Burton
- Job title
- Service Delivery Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01737 768511
- Additional information
For further information please contact:
Lucy Burton on 01737 768511 ext 2900
or
Maria Vazquez-Tojeiro on 01737 768511 ext 2413
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