Saffron Health Partnership is looking for an experienced medical secretary to join our team on a 10-month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. The role is for a period of 10 months from November 2024 to August 2025, 30 hours per week ideally worked over 5 days. This is an essential role at the practice, providing secretarial and administrative support to our team of GPs. The role requires a full range of IT (including SystmOne) and secretarial skills. The team is made up of 2 experienced and supportive secretaries. You will be working in a very busy practice.,
* Using the digital dictation system (Lexacom) to type accurate letters and referrals and prioritise these using the latest guidance.
* Providing a full secretarial service for all GPs. This involves sending referrals via eRS and email.
* Actively monitoring 2 week wait referrals and making sure appointments for patients have been secured and attended.
* Monitoring eRS worklists daily.
* Completing Ardens templates on SystmOne and keeping the templates up to date.
* Actioning Tasks on SystmOne.
* Dealing with hospital, clinical and patient queries by phone
* Managing advice and guidance.
We are a long-established practice with a very friendly team serving 21,000 patients from our 3 sites in Biggleswade, Sandy and Langford.