Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Medical Secretary - Band 4

The closing date is 17 July 2025

Job summary

Perinatal Team - Willenhall PCC, Remembrance Road, Coventry, CV3 3DG

Medical Secretary - Band 4

Permanent - 37.5 hours per week

Who we're Seeking: Applicants with secretarial experience to join our busy admin team in providing a comprehensive secretarial service to Medical Consultants and their clinical teams, supporting the growing demand for provision of care within the Perinatal Mental Health Team. This team provides mental health support for antenatal and postnatal women across Coventry & Warwickshire.

We're looking for someone who is friendly and approachable with excellent communication skills, who can build working relationships and promote change and efficiency. As well as being a team player, you'll need to work autonomously and promote a flexible approach and strong work ethic in order to prioritise, multi-task, and delegate workloads.

Applicants will share our values of Compassion, Respect, Excellence, Collaboration & Integrity to present a professional image and maintain the highest standards of customer service and confidentiality.

Interviews will take place face-to-face.

Main duties of the job

The Job Role: As Medical Secretary, you will act as one of the first points of contact for the service, being required to exercise judgement and resolve problems using initiative, and to work unsupervised on a day-to-day basis to meet deadlines. You'll manage a range of duties, organise workloads, including diary management, and respond to enquiries both internal and external to the organisation. The role will also provide typing support to the Consultants and their teams (digital dictation and other methods), Attention to detail is essential.

This role includes a requirement to supervise and co-ordinate Band 2/3 administrative staff functions and to support the Senior Admin Lead in providing a comprehensive and efficient service.

As a single point of entry service, you will help to manage and co-ordinate referrals from the admin inbox. There will be a requirement to attend Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings and generate outcomes from this meeting in a timely manner.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

  • generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
  • excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
  • salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
  • discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
  • wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
  • staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Details

Date posted

03 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

444-7317567-MH

Job locations

Willenhall Primary Care Centre

Remembrance Road

Coventry

CV3 3DG


Job description

Job responsibilities

Skills and Experience: Your skills will include the ability to priorities, co-ordinate, and delegate your workload and that of other team members. Experience of supervising staff is desirable, as is carrying out appraisals, sickness meetings, etc. Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office systems is essential whilst training will be provided for in-house systems such as Carenotes, Tracking, etc.

The role is predominantly based on site, however, we can support some home working on a flexible rota basis (likely one day per week) in line with service needs, for which equipment will be provided. Home Wi-Fi network will be required with a confidential space to work in.

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Skills and Experience: Your skills will include the ability to priorities, co-ordinate, and delegate your workload and that of other team members. Experience of supervising staff is desirable, as is carrying out appraisals, sickness meetings, etc. Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office systems is essential whilst training will be provided for in-house systems such as Carenotes, Tracking, etc.

The role is predominantly based on site, however, we can support some home working on a flexible rota basis (likely one day per week) in line with service needs, for which equipment will be provided. Home Wi-Fi network will be required with a confidential space to work in.

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good General Education (eg. GCSE English and Maths A-C)
  • QCF Business Administration Level 3
  • QCF Customer Service Level 3
  • QCF Team Leading Level 2 / First Line Management Level 3

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • Articulate with excellent communication / customer care skills both written and verbal demonstrating sympathy and compassion
  • Advanced keyboard / IT skills
  • Ability to manage and prioritise own and other's workload and use own initiative
  • Ability to work autonomously
  • Excellent organisation skills and ability to multitask
  • Excellent time management skills ability to prioritise conflicting demands in order to meet deadlines
  • Excellent knowledge and understanding of reception / office procedures
  • Ability to take and transcribe notes of meetings in a timely manner
  • Ability to establish and maintain relevant recording and information systems
  • Ability to problem solve and deal professionally with complaints
  • Understand confidentiality and apply the principles in every day working practice

Experience

Essential

  • Competent working with a range of Microsoft Office packages (eg. Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access)
  • Experience of working in a busy office / customer care environment
  • Experience of working in Healthcare
  • Experience of working in a supervisory role and delegating work
  • Medical secretarial experience
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good General Education (eg. GCSE English and Maths A-C)
  • QCF Business Administration Level 3
  • QCF Customer Service Level 3
  • QCF Team Leading Level 2 / First Line Management Level 3

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • Articulate with excellent communication / customer care skills both written and verbal demonstrating sympathy and compassion
  • Advanced keyboard / IT skills
  • Ability to manage and prioritise own and other's workload and use own initiative
  • Ability to work autonomously
  • Excellent organisation skills and ability to multitask
  • Excellent time management skills ability to prioritise conflicting demands in order to meet deadlines
  • Excellent knowledge and understanding of reception / office procedures
  • Ability to take and transcribe notes of meetings in a timely manner
  • Ability to establish and maintain relevant recording and information systems
  • Ability to problem solve and deal professionally with complaints
  • Understand confidentiality and apply the principles in every day working practice

Experience

Essential

  • Competent working with a range of Microsoft Office packages (eg. Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access)
  • Experience of working in a busy office / customer care environment
  • Experience of working in Healthcare
  • Experience of working in a supervisory role and delegating work
  • Medical secretarial experience

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Address

Willenhall Primary Care Centre

Remembrance Road

Coventry

CV3 3DG


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Address

Willenhall Primary Care Centre

Remembrance Road

Coventry

CV3 3DG


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Senior Admin Lead

Beverley Veasey

beverley.veasey@covwarkpt.nhs.uk

02476212176

Details

Date posted

03 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

444-7317567-MH

Job locations

Willenhall Primary Care Centre

Remembrance Road

Coventry

CV3 3DG


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