Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Personal Assistant

The closing date is 11 September 2025

Job summary

The Colorectal Secretaries are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic PA to work for a Consultant/Clinical Team. You will be required to meet local and national targets in relation to the turnaround of clinical correspondence, and support the validation of 18 week RTT pathways.

You will provide a fully comprehensive and confidential PA secretarial service to the Consultant and their clinical team. It is essential that you are able to demonstrate initiative suitable to the role and be fully supportive to other colleagues. You should be well-organised, flexible and have the ability to liaise with staff at all levels.

Previous medical secretarial experience is essential and an ECDL qualification / experience of the hospital patient management system desirable. Accuracy and attention to detail are also imperative.

You will also possess effective communication skills and be flexible in your approach with a willingness to work as part of a team, but also be able to use your own initiative. The hours of work are 30 hours per week across 5 days.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a comprehensive, quality, confidential secretarial service to Consultant staff and their medical teams, or to clinical professional teams as appropriate.

A key requirement of the job is to organise workload with the Consultants/clinical teams and co-ordinate their activities to ensure that an efficient service is provided.

About us

Mid Cheshire is unique as it is an organisation where you cannot only wrap your arms around it and truly feel part of a "work family", but there is also plenty of scale to have a broad and rewarding job and career.

There is a lot going on at the moment and lots of reasons to be excited about the future as we develop our 5-year strategy. Our focus right now is on the restoration and rebuild of our clinical services following Covid, including embedding and sustaining some of the innovation that we have seen over the last year. Working with our many partners, we seek to redesign some of our services as we take forward our aspiration for the redevelopment of Leighton Hospital so that our workforce and the people of Cheshire have a hospital that provides outstanding healthcare facilities which they can be proud of.

Date posted

05 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 to £30,162 a year pa, per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

412-S&C-7306650

Job locations

MCHFT

Middlewich Road

CREWE

CW1 4QJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to monitor and assess workload amongst the team, including being able to identify and step-in to fill gaps, to ensure continuity of services.

It is essential that the post holder is able to exercise initiative suitable to the role and is fully supportive to other colleagues in the administrative team.

Please see full job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to monitor and assess workload amongst the team, including being able to identify and step-in to fill gaps, to ensure continuity of services.

It is essential that the post holder is able to exercise initiative suitable to the role and is fully supportive to other colleagues in the administrative team.

Please see full job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

GCSE in English Language and Mathematics
RSA 3 Typewriting or equivalent experience

Desirable

Advanced ECDL or equivalent

Skills

Essential

Effective Customer Service Skills
Demonstrate good organisational and time management skills

Desirable

Understand and manage health records/ waiting lists and hospital systems.

Skills

Essential

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

GCSE in English Language and Mathematics
RSA 3 Typewriting or equivalent experience

Desirable

Advanced ECDL or equivalent

Skills

Essential

Effective Customer Service Skills
Demonstrate good organisational and time management skills

Desirable

Understand and manage health records/ waiting lists and hospital systems.

Skills

Essential

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

MCHFT

Middlewich Road

CREWE

CW1 4QJ

Employer's website

https://www.mcht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

MCHFT

Middlewich Road

CREWE

CW1 4QJ

Employer's website

https://www.mcht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)