Medical Secretary - Vascular Surgery

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 02 March 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of a 12 month fixed‑term Medical Secretary role within the Vascular Surgery Department.

The Medical Secretary role is challenging and will require attention to detail as well as being able to work under pressure.

The post holder will work alongside the service manager, pathway coordinator and the MDT which includes consultants, nurses and a wider admin team. The successful applicant will work closely with the consultants to deliver high quality care.

This is an exciting time for the Vascular Surgery team as our hub is relocating from Bedford Hospital to Luton and Dunstable Hospital in April 2026. The successful candidate will be pivotal to supporting the team during this transition.

The successful candidate will need to be compassionate, resilient and self‑motivated. This includes a positive approach to team working and have excellent interpersonal and problem‑solving skills. The ability to produce high quality work to timelines whilst managing conflicting priorities is essential.

If you are an excellent communicator, passionate about providing high quality care and you thrive in a complex and fast‑paced environment we would love to hear from you.

If you would like to find out more about this exciting opportunity, please contact Kayleigh Spackman at kay

• Work is managed rather than supervised. Act independently to plan, manage and prioritise own workload.
• Knowledge and understanding through experience of sound office and secretarial practices. To organise and manage an efficient/effective filing system, thus ensuring all office practices are up-to-date and functional. Photocopying and scanning of relevant information.
• Extensive keyboard skills including touch and audio typing. Knowledge of software programmes (Microsoft Word, Outlook and hospital database).
• Appropriate knowledge and understanding of medical terms and procedures.
• To provide the first point of contact for all written and telephone enquiries on behalf of the Consultant and his/her team, using judgement to establish validity and priority of the contact.
• Endeavour to meet urgent deadlines e.g. complaints, police reports, medical reports and other external organisations, ensuring patient confidentiality is maintained.
• To carry out reasonable requests made by the Consultant and Line Manager to whom you will be responsible.
• To deal with telephone calls, emails and take appropriate action as required. Provide non‑clinical information to patients about admissions and appointments. Reassuring patients who are worried about test results.
• Telephone calls should be dealt with in a sensitive and tactful manner especially when liaising with distressed, angry or confused patients/relatives.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics‑led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff.

As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.

Our Values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary…