Medical Secretarial Work

As well as supplying Office Support staff to businesses in and around Winchester, White Knight have specialised in supplying temporary medical secretarial staff to the NHS and private hospitals in Southampton, Winchester and Basingstoke since 1989.  Recently, we were awarded a place on the NHS PASA National Framework Contract to supply all areas of temporary administrative and clerical staff to the NHS organisations in the region.

A large proportion of bookings we get from the NHS are medical secretarial assignments.  These usually involve working in a hospital environment and carrying out secretarial and/or typing duties for a hospital consultant (senior doctor) and their team. It is interesting, varied work in unique environments, working with some of the most talented doctors and medical staff in the country.  The NHS Trusts are employing more temporary staff through us than ever before, and we are endeavouring to attract those of you with the right skills into this area of work.  Medical related work can offer more continuity and more flexibility than commercial work and it is ultimately extremely rewarding for those wishing to ‘give something back’.  Many of our bookings are ongoing assignments which the Trusts themselves are trying to fill permanently.

If this type of work interests you and if you posses any or all of the following skills/experience, then it could open up a whole new world of work for you, which can also lead to permanent opportunities in the NHS:

• Accurate, competent typing (30-40wpm minimum)
• Excellent written English skills (grammar, spelling, punctuation)
• Some medical terminology or knowledge of anatomy/physiology; practitioners or students of homeopathic or alternative medicines and sports therapists, who can type, can all make excellent medical secretaries!
• A compassionate nature, good listening skills.

It also helps to have an interest in health and medicine, plus an understanding of the NHS and recognition of it’s enormous worth and ongoing achievement, despite limited resources. 

If you would like to find out more about medical secretarial work please contact us on 01962 841917 or email ruth@whiteknightrecruitment.com.

For those of you interested in developing your skills for Medical Secretarial work formally, there is a course at the Peter Symonds Adult Continuing Education centre in Winchester. It runs from the beginning of November for up to 30 weeks, 9.30 am – 3.00 pm, not including school holidays.  For further information about this and other Information Technology courses, please email Maureen Lee on mlee@psc.ac.uk.