Job overview

Full time 37.5 hours per week. Permanent post.

We are looking for a highly organised  Secretary/Team Leader, with previous experience in a similar setting, who has leadership skills, and is keen to lead the team to ensure smooth running of the service. 

This is a new and valued role that will be responsible for the provision of a full secretarial and administrative support service to the Consultants and senior team in the Urgent Care department, ensuring a high standard of Medical/ PA/secretarial duties is maintained and deadlines are met.

To provide day-to-day supervisory duties to the Urgent Care administration team, including completing appraisals, ensuring all mandatory training is completed and recorded for doctors and administration team, and return to work interviews are undertaken and recorded on roster.  You will also delegate a range of tasks fairly to the team.

To ensure cover is provided for sickness / annual leave, and in times of demand for all other secretarial staff in the Urgent Care Department.

To use initiative working autonomously within the remit of the role. To maintain a high standard of service to meet patient needs, and keep accurate up to date records.

To support the organisation in the delivery of a seamless pathway of care.

If you feel you possess the right qualities for this role, we would love to hear from you. 

Main duties of the job

Duties and responsibilities.

To be responsible for the provision of a full secretarial and administrative support service to the Consultants and senior team in the Urgent Care department, ensuring a high standard of PA/secretarial; duties is maintained and deadlines are met.

 To provide day-to-day supervisory duties to the Urgent Care secretarial team, including completing appraisals, ensuring all mandatory training is completed and recorded for doctors and administration team, and return to work interviews are undertaken and recorded on roster.

To provide cover during sickness / annual leave and in times of demand for all other secretarial staff in the Urgent Care Department.

Working for our organisation

Remember when we said we were a high performing Trust? Here is why….

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate, and community health care. We work alongside and in partnership with primary care to provide services (rated ‘Good’ in our last CQC inspection) to 275,000 people living in Bolton.

Our Trust is one of the few in the country to deliver a financial surplus over a number of years, whilst also providing and sustaining high quality clinical services. Financial and clinical stability is important as it gives us the scope to drive our services forward and innovate.

The last Staff Survey results shows that we are the best performing acute Trust in Greater Manchester for Quality of Care, Staff Morale & Staff Engagement.