Medical Secretary inSt Helens inSt Helens PUBLISHED 1 MAY 2024

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Medical Secretary to join the administration team that supports Later Life & Memory Service (LLAMS) based at Harry Blackman House. St Helens The successful candidate will also be required, on an adhoc basis, to provide medical secretary support to Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) team, Recovery Team and Routine Recovery Team.

The successful candidate will be an integral member of the Later Life & Memory Service team based in Harry Blackman House and will work closely with our current medical secretary.


Duties Will Include


  • To provide flexible administrative and clerical cover to support the needs of the service
  • To provide an efficient audio, copy typing and word processing service. Processing all in a timely, accurate and quality manner
  • Take comprehensive minutes for Team meetings and clinical consultation, such as Multi Disciplinary Meetings (MDT's).
  • Arrange internal and external meetings/visits, which may include the booking of venues and hotels.
  • Liaise with external agencies including, secondary and tertiary care providers.
  • Ensure team is appraised of Consultants annual/study leave
  • Provide secretarial support to other teams on an adhoc basis.


In Addition To The Above You Must


  • Be motivated
  • Be flexible
  • Be committed to being part of a team that is dedicated to providing the best possible outcomes for the patients in our care.
  • Have great communication and organisational skills;
  • Possess a sound understanding of medical terminology
  • Have excellent IT skills demonstrating the ability to use Microsoft Office and our clinical IT system (RiO).

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.


Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.


For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lin Bennett Job title: Office Manager Email address: Telephone number:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Medical Secretary to join the administration team that supports Later Life & Memory Service (LLAMS) based at Harry Blackman House. St Helens The successful candidate will also be required, on an adhoc basis, to provide medical secretary support to Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) team, Recovery Team and Routine Recovery Team.

The successful candidate will be an integral member of the Later Life & Memory Service team based in Harry Blackman House and will work closely with our current medical secretary.

Duties Will Include

  • To provide flexible administrative and clerical cover to support the needs of the service
  • To provide an efficient audio, copy typing and word processing service. Processing all in a timely, accurate and quality manner
  • Take comprehensive minutes for Team meetings and clinical consultation, such as Multi Disciplinary Meetings (MDT's).
  • Arrange internal and external meetings/visits, which may include the booking of venues and hotels.
  • Liaise with external agencies including, secondary and tertiary care providers.
  • Ensure team is appraised of Consultants annual/study leave
  • Provide secretarial support to other teams on an adhoc basis.


In Addition To The Above You Must

  • Be motivated
  • Be flexible
  • Be committed to being part of a team that is dedicated to providing the best possible outcomes for the patients in our care.
  • Have great communication and organisational skills;
  • Possess a sound understanding of medical terminology
  • Have excellent IT skills demonstrating the ability to use Microsoft Office and our clinical IT system (RiO).

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lin Bennett Job title: Office Manager Email address: Telephone number:


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