Job summary
- Main area
- Gynaecology
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-NN-7047101-A&C-Y
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St George's Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £31,944 - £34,937 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Medical Secretary
Band 4
*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Job overview
The Gynaecology department are looking for a motivated administrator to join a friendly and supportive team.
To provide efficient and high quality secretarial and administrative support to the Gynaecology team.
To have key working relationships with the clinical teams and secretarial colleagues in the Gynaecology & Obstetrics Department to provide a high-quality service to the
patients.
To be an active and supportive member of the department’s administrative and clerical
team.
Main duties of the job
- To have excellent keyboard and word processor skills in Word and Microsoft Outlook.
- To identify the most appropriate layout of complex documents, e.g., reports, minutes of meetings, on the word processor and to maintain an organised file management system.
- To complete all dictation documents, using the Dictate.IT software for clinicians and nurses within the Gynaecology department
- To act independently, ensuring that daily tasks and on-going workloads are prioritised and completed in agreed timeframes.
- To assist the managers with validation of day case bookings, and any anomalies with the bookings.
- To adhere to the departmental protocol for the use of the voicemail.
- To identify when a caller’s issue is sufficiently urgent to contact the clinician during a meeting/clinical session.
- To provide cover for other Medical Secretaries within the department when absent.
- To provide comprehensive support to the clinicians and their teams to facilitate / enable them to perform their clinical / academic responsibilities.
- To always ensure confidentiality, only releasing confidential information obtained during employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.
- To work in accordance with the Trust’s Equality and Diversity policy to eliminate unlawful discrimination in relation to employment and service delivery.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to job description/person specification attached. Please feel free to make contact for more information/informal chat.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years NHS experience
education
Essential criteria
- 5 GCSE's or relevant experience
educataion
Desirable criteria
- AMSPAR qualification
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Medical secretary experience
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
- Lauren Gent
- Job title
- Assistant Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 725 5950
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