Charlotte Peake attains her Career Goals with Pitman Training Peterborough

“My career aspiration is to work as a Medical Secretary. I enrolled at Pitman Training Peterborough to complete qualifications relevant to the role.

I liked that you could learn at your own pace and fit study around existing commitments, in my case some voluntary work I was doing as an Administrative Assistant. I took ‘The Medical Secretary – An Introduction’ and ‘Medical Audio Transcription’, achieving a Distinction in both. I also went on to study towards OCR Level 2 Medical Word Processing, for which I achieved a Pass and AMSPAR Level 2 Certificate in Medical Terminology, a Pass with Merit.

My qualifications really made a difference when applying for jobs. I began work at Pilgrim Hospital, where I secured a 6 month contract after just two weeks of Bank work. My position there as Medical Secretarial Assistant allowed me to put into practice what I had learned at Pitman Training.

I found studying with Pitman Training an enjoyable way to learn practical skills and the knowledge needed to start my career in administration in the healthcare sector. I found the staff to be very encouraging and supportive. By the end of the course I had achieved what I had set out to do, having found administrative work in a hospital. I intend to continue my career in the NHS. I feel assured that I will be able to find further work due to the qualifications that I have from Pitman Training, and the NHS experience they have helped me to gain.”