Senior Medical Secretary - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Interview Date: 12 April 2023

  • 7 hours 30 minutes/week


Responsible for the organisation of secretarial support to Consultants, Senior Nurse, Junior Medical Staff and other clinical staff within the Consultants team i.e.

Specialist Nurses.

Responsible for the day to day management of the administrative/secretarial team, delegation of tasks and co-ordination of annual leave.

Contribute to a comprehensive efficient and effective administrative and clerical service. Will include minute taking across a number of strategic service meetings.

Contribute to a consistently high standard of patient care as a member of a multi-disciplinary team. Main point of contact between patient/patient relatives and Drs and Specialist Nurses. Will require compassionate communication skills to undertake sensitive conversations.

Ability to collate and analyse data for evaluation and create extensive reports to reflect findings

Cover Senior Medical Secretary posts Trust wide as required.


Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.


Rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country.

This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
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Job Purpose

  • Responsible for the organisation of secretarial support to Consultants, Junior Medical Staff and other clinical staff within the Consultants team i.e. Specialist Nurses.
  • Responsible for the day to day management of the administrative/secretarial team, including supervision of the administrative staff, delegation of tasks and coordination of annual leave and undertake appraisals of junior staff.
  • Contribute to a comprehensive efficient and effective administrative and clerical service.
  • Contribute to a consistently high standard of patient care as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
  • Cover Senior Medical Secretary posts Trust wide as required.


As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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