Medical Secretary/Personal Assistant

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom AMSPAR Full time

NHS medical secretaries make sure that our frontline staff are able to dedicate their time to patient care while personal assistants support senior staff, managementand leaders.

Working environment

As a medical secretary or personal assistant, you'll usually work for a senior member of staff or group of staff. This could be in variety of organisations, a generalpractice, a pharmacy or hospital. It can also include the private and charity sectors. You'll support the work of a department by taking on administrative and secretarial tasks. Forexample:

typing
arranging meetings and taking minutes
managing diaries
arranging travel or home visits
dealing with enquiries
taking phone calls
ordering stationery
dealing with post and emails
creating and updating spreadsheets and databases

You could be based in clinical areas such as:

hospital departments of all types
specialist clinics, including cancer centres or accident and emergency units
GP surgeries and health centres

You may have contact with patients and their families as well as with healthcare staff and other admin staff.

Personal assistants may also be based in non-clinical areas such as NHS headquarters buildings where there is little or no contact with patients.Medicalsecretaries/personal assistants may supervise a team of admin/secretarial staff such as clerks or typists

Entry requirements, skills and interests

Medical secretaries/personal assistants have usually worked elsewhere in the NHS so they have experience of medical terminology and NHS ways of working.

There are no set entry requirements for a medical secretary/personal assistant. However, employers expect excellent keyboard skills. They may ask for qualifications intyping or word processing. Employers also expect a good standard of literacy, numeracy and IT skills. They may ask for GCSEs or equivalent qualifications. You may be able to enteran apprenticeship through an administrative role and through further training and qualifications, progress to more senior roles as a medical secretary or personal assistant.

They support the work of a department or whole organisation.

Personal characteristics

As a medical secretary or personal assistant, you'll need to :

work accurately and methodically
meet deadlines
use medical terminology
pay attention to detail
work in a team but use their own initiative
work with all types of people
be helpful and reassuring if dealing with patients and their families

Skills required :

excellent keyboard skills
IT skills
good spelling and grammar
organisational skills

Pay and Conditions

Medical secretaries and personal assistants in the NHS are paid on the agenda for change (afc) pay system. For this type of role your expected pay band would be3 or 4. With experience and/or an AMSPAR qualification you could progress to band 5. Terms and conditions will differ for health organisations outside of the NHS. Thiscould include general practice and pharmacies. Standard hours are generally 37.5 paid hours for a full-time contract. Flexible hours and part-time work are generally available. Depending on the employing organisation, the role could include early starts, weekends and evenings.

Pay examples (hourly rate) :

From 1st April 2020

National Living Wage Adult £8.72

Living Wage Foundation

Band 3


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