Medical Secretary

Main area Children's Services Grade Band 3 Medical secretary Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (to cover Core hours from 08:00 - 17:00) Job -

Employer Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site BRI/SLH Town Bradford Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/10/2026 23:59

Closing Date:
09/10/2026

Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 10/10/2026

Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 19/10/2026 (may change)

The job holder will be responsible for the provision of a comprehensive administrative and secretarial service within Children's Services department.

The job holder will work as part of the secretarial team to ensure that patient related data held within the Trust is accurate and complete to enable reliable and robust reporting to support clinical and business processes.

Responsible for the provision of a range of secretarial and administrative duties related to patient pathway management, including validating patient data, booking patients for appointments, digital dictation and word processing of clinical letters, production of reports and other correspondence as required by the team.

Please ensure you take the time to read through the job description and person specification before applying.

Supports the Senior Medical Secretary in ensuring that the provision of a secretarial service within the relevant clinical specialities is both effective and efficient and utilises all available resource.

With support and guidance act as a point of contact and be responsible for the dissemination of information, messages and enquiries, liaising with multi-disciplinary team members, other health professionals and staff within and external to the Trust.
The job holder will have involvement with Clinicians and Service Managers across the Trust to ensure that patients are treated in accordance with the Trust’s policy and procedures.

The postholder will be responsible for a range of duties related to patient pathway management including processing of clinic letters using the T-Pro digital dictation system and ensuring RTT is recorded accurately with relation to national and local RTT standards. Data quality improvement and validation, using the Trust pathway validation apps and cleansing of all EPR waiting lists as required.

Candidates should be literate and numerate, with excellent organisational and time management skills. Medical Secretary experience is desirable but not essential.

Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

• We are one team

We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.

Providing secretarial/administrative support with typing, scanning, photocopying, opening and distributing mail as appropriate.
Have a detailed understanding of the Trust’s Access Policy and other National/local targets ie. RTT, and works to the standard operating procedures developed to support patient pathways.
Validate data regarding patient pathways to ensure PTL’s are updated on a weekly basis.
Use initiative in filtering information and be proactive in dealing with routine matters, seeking support from the Senior Medical Secretary.
To audio type, clinical letters and process minutes of meetings as required.
Assist with any data collection and entry required.
Deal with telephone enquiries from patients, relatives, etc, which may be of a sensitive nature, in…