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Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Saint Mary's Hospital Town Manchester Salary £24,937 - £26,598 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 13/01/2026 23:59

We wish to appoint an enthusiastic and keen Assistant Secretary to join our Neonatal Administration Team based at Saint Mary’s Hospital. Good organisational skills are essential together with the ability to communicate well at different levels.

You will assist the Medical Secretarial Team to provide a comprehensive administrative service to the Consultants, Lead Nurse, Matrons and Nursing Staff within the Newborn Service across the Managed Clinical Service.

We are looking for someone to join and contribute to the positive approach to our working environment.
You must work well within a team and be willing to learn new skills to continue to support our team to support our clinical colleagues.

You will have some previous administration/secretarial experience however full training will be given. You should be able to use Microsoft Office applications proficiently.

In return we offer a rewarding role that offers and exciting challenge and also support from your team manager with training opportunities offered in order to support your ongoing development.

To support the Medical Secretarial Team with the provision of a comprehensive, high quality and efficient administrative and secretarial service to the Consultants, Head of Nursing, Lead Nurse, Matrons, Nursing Teams.

To assist Medical Secretaries in arranging and supporting meetings. This will include booking rooms or using Teams. Emailing agenda's and taking minutes where necessary.

Support Medical Secretary with arranging outpatient clinics and booking appointments with parents of patients. Preparing letters and correspondence to parents using the HIVE system (training will be given).

Data input into created spreadsheets and maintaining accuracy and confidentiality.

Answering telephone queries from other departments and parents and forwarding where necessary.

Contribute when required to the provision of a reception service, greeting staff, parents and visitors.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

• Good standard of general education or equivalent experience.
• RSA Typing II or equivalent
• NVQ 2 or equivalent

• An understanding of secretarial procedures
• Knowledge of NHS
• Knowledge of hospital environment/routines
• Knowledge of requirement of patients
• Knowledge of HIVE

• Experience of secretarial/typing duties
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Software
• Experience of ESR and E-Roster
• Experience of HIVE

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Name Kerry Goddard Job title Assistant Directorate Manager Email address kerry.goddard@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0161 276 6960

Additional information

Leanne Beaumont - Administration Support Manager Email address leanne.beaumont@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0161 276 6331