Medical Personal Assistant: Sponsorship Available

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We have an opportunity at our Bury Site for an experienced and proactive Medical PA to join our busy and dynamic team in Accident & Emergency.

You must be highly motivated and committed to provide, high-quality administrative and PA support to multiple consultants and their clinical teams.

Main duties of the job

  • A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, RSA III or equivalent typing and knowledge of medical terminology are essential for this post. Knowledge of the 18-week patient pathway would be desirable but not essential, as training will be given.
  • As the role involves dealing with the public and professionals you must be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills. You will have a flexible and professional approach.
  • You will have proven organisational skills and be able to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • AMSPAR Advanced Medical Secretarial Diploma including Medical Terminology or equivalent demonstrable skills/experience
  • Word processing – Qualified to RSA level III/NVQ level 3 or equivalent qualification /demonstrable skills (60+ wpm at 98% accuracy)
  • ECDL or equivalent qualification/demonstrable skills
  • English GCSE/’O’ Level grade C or above/equivalent qualification/demonstrable skills

Desirable

  • Customer Service Qualification
  • Shorthand Qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in undertaking a full range of office management and secretarial procedures and their application to improve service efficiency and effectiveness in a hospital environment
  • Experience of using Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Outlook
  • Experience of medical audio typing
  • Experience of using IM&T systems for data extraction/entry
  • Experience of successfully working within tight time frames and to deadlines

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of Information Governance with regard to maintaining confidentiality of person identifiable information

Skills

Essential

  • Understanding of local and national access targets, choose and book and how role fits with these initiatives
  • Proven organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload with interruptions and changing priorities
  • Good command and understanding of English, punctuation and grammar
  • Proven application of medical terminology within at least one specialty

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 25 October 2026

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