Senior Medical Secretary | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

apartmentEast Kent Hospitals NHS Trust placeCanterbury calendar_month 

You will be working as part of a team of 6 medical secretaries and 10 Stroke consultants with support of the Operational team.

The role is responsible for managing a team of medical secretaries and providing comprehensive administrative, clerical and transcription support to Consultants and their teams.
  • Follow the Delivering Performance process for the team, consider training and development requirements
  • Support and develop an effective induction process
  • Co-ordinate team leave, using Healthroster, and ensure appropriate service cover is maintained
  • Manage and monitor sickness absence of their team, reporting as necessary to Human Resources, Payroll and senior management
  • Manage the recruitment, selection and induction processes for new staff, ensuring policies and procedures are followed
  • Ensuring effective communication through regular team meetings
  • Monitor the work environment to meet health and safety standards and recommend areas of improvement
  • Manage order and monitor all equipment and supplies within the department considering budgetary guidelines
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’.

We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country.

Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.

Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’.

If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.

This advert closes on Friday 21 Mar 2025

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