Marsden Medical Group has a fantastic opportunity for a medical secretary to join our team for 18 hours per week (working 3 days, Monday, Wednesday and Friday).
This is an essential front-line role at the practice, providing an efficient, comprehensive secretarial and administrative support service to the wider practice team.
Our Medical Secretaries play a vital role in supporting our doctors and teams bringing their skills and professionalism into the team, speaking to patients on the telephone, typing clinical letters amongst many other essential tasks. The life of a Medical Secretary is varied, interesting and highly valued.
In this post you will join a team who are looking for someone with audio typing experience. The individual should also possess strong organisational skills, good time management, and excellent verbal and written communication.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of a team that provides a secretarial and administrative service to the wider team which will involve, but not exclusively be limited to;
Typing letters
Answering patient queries by phone or email
Cancelling and reinstating appointments as necessary
Booking appointments for patients and coordinating services
Attending and minuting meetings
Reports
We reserve the right to close this advert early due to the volume of applicants. Please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
If you have no heard from us 10 working days following the closing date you will not have been selcted for interview.
About us
Our team comprises of Partners, salaried GPs, Nurses, HCAs,TNA's Registrar's, F2 Gp and PA's who look after over 22800 patients, many of which have been with us across generations over two sites.
A teaching, training and research practice striving to grow and develop the next generation of clinicians.
All of our clinical staff are supported by a well-established management and admin team comprising of over 40 staff of differing roles. All the team get together in our staff room for coffee, food and a catch up every day, it offers a supportive environment to bounce ideas around and get to know one another!
If you bake cake its a winner - we all love cake!
Job responsibilities
Job Title: Medical Secretary 18 hours per week
JOB PURPOSE
To ensurethat all secretarial duties are carried out efficiently, and to assist thePartnership in providing a high quality service.
MAINRESPONSIBILITIES
1 Audio typing of practice documents
2To attendmeetings when required to take shorthand notes.
3To conferwith hospital secretaries concerning expedition of appointments, dischargeletters, and results of investigations.
4To answerqueries from hospital departments.
5 Direct patients to appropriate services
6To assistwith patients telephone / personal enquiries regarding hospital appointments,referrals etc.
7To expediteinformation on hospital appointments, laboratory, and X-Ray results. Noting records and informing patient ofoutcome.
ADMINISTRATION
1Audio typingof referral letters.
2Type upReports/minutes of meetings.
3Onlineaccess applications
4This list isnot exhaustive
INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY
1To have aworking knowledge of all aspects of the systems necessary to the job.
2To ensurethe security policy is adhered to.
HEALTH ANDSAFETY
1 Takereasonable care of themselves and others at work.
2Co-operatewith the practice as far as is necessary to enable them to carry out theirlegal duty.
3Not tointentionally or recklessly interfere with anything provided; includingpersonal protective equipment, for health and safety or welfare at work.
Any otherduties requested by Partners, Practice Management Team or Senior team.
This jobdescription may need to be reviewed or revised from time to time as thepractice develops.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Grade c or above equivalent in English
Experience
* worked in office environment with typing as main role
* Worked for miniumum of 2 years in secretarial role preferably in primary or secondary care.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£23,615 a yearPro rata to WTE (37.5hrs per week) Agenda for Change band 2
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