# Medical Secretary

**Company**: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Sutton
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £30,630 to £32,346 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Medical Secretary role is key to the efficient management of the consultant firm at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, a world-leading cancer centre. You will provide organisational and administrative support to ensure patient access to healthcare professionals and treatment planning.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Act as the first point of contact for users of the service, handling telephone enquiries from patients, carers, GPs, and colleagues professionally.

- Type and distribute clinical and general correspondence according to Trust standards.

- Process new patient referrals within Trust and nationally agreed time frames to comply with cancer diagnosis and treatment quality standards.

- Open and action your own electronic and paper mail daily, and that of the consultant team where required.

- Input and maintain patient diagnoses and current clinical unit data on the Hospital Information System, and other patient-related information as needed.

**Requirements:**

- Good general education, educated to GCSE level or equivalent.

- Competent at Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook.

- Previous medical secretarial or administrative experience.

- Understanding of medical terminology, preferably oncology.

- Effective communication skills in written and spoken English.

- Ability to work as part of a team, prioritise a busy workload, work without close supervision, remain calm under pressure, and handle sensitive information confidentially.

**Benefits:** The Trust offers a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities, and clear career pathways.

**Salary:** £30,630 to £32,346 a year, pro rata.

**Working Pattern:** Part-time, 3 days per week (Monday, Thursday & Friday).

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Outlook
- medical terminology

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