Support Secretary | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£25,760 - £27,476 pro rata, per annum
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Heywood, OL10 2DY
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	2 Oct 2026
Closing date:	1 Nov 2026

Apply for this job

Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Support Secretary who can provide excellent secretarial and administration skills to join our dedicated Secretarial Team within the Community Paediatric Service.

The role involves supporting a team of Consultants and other health professionals. You should have excellent audio typing skills and experience (preferably within an NHS setting) and be computer literate with a broad experience of Microsoft Office packages. You will need to be highly organised with a flexible approach to your work and have excellent communication and team working skills. You will need to be self-motivated to manage your own working time effectively.

To provide professional, comprehensive and confidential administrative support to the relevant health professionals and their team.

This includes typing and formatting of correspondence, clinical

letters, reports and policies from handwritten, dictated, paper, or electronic information in line with Trust corporate guidelines.

To work collaboratively with other administrative colleagues and

support staff.

Audio-typing, copy typing and formatting of clinical letters and reports where follow up actions as required.

appropriate; meeting timescales as directed by your line manager.

To take minutes of meetings, type and distribute to all members of staff

Word processing, which may include letter, memos, notes, record cards, messages and email communication.

Collate, provide, receive and appropriately store (manually and electronically) sensitive and confidential information,

Maintain administrative systems set up in team offices to ensure an organised and efficient working environment for staff.

Responsible for assisting with the booking of team training and responsible for maintaining local training records

Undertake reception duties if required.

To attend meetings, training and briefing sessions appropriate to either your job specific role or, as a staff member of the Trust.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack.

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This advert closes on Sunday 18 Oct 2026

Apply for this job

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.