Medical Secretary

Colchester - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is thrilled to announce an excellent opportunity for a medical secretary to join our team on a part or full-time basis. The position consists of between 30-37.5 hours per week spread over five days although part-time applications will also be considered.

As a medical secretary at Ambrose Avenue Group Practice you will play a vital role in supporting our GPs and enhancing the care experience for our local community.

Key responsibilities include:

Provide an efficient and accurate secretarial service to the practice GPs and other healthcare professionals.
Copy typing letters reports patient referrals meeting minutes and memorandums as well as handling telephone calls.
Initiate and compose correspondence both internal and external in a professional and timely manner.
Address patient concerns and complaints calmly and professionally.
Undertake administrative tasks related to patient referrals ensuring accurate maintenance and monitoring of practice records.
Assist the practice team with clerical and administrative duties including reports process reviews letter writing emailing and scanning as needed.
Ensure compliance with practice policies including Equality and Diversity Information Governance (including Data Protection Legislation) Confidentiality and Health and Safety.
Accurately update and monitor patient records and information systems both manual and computerized.
Resolve a wide variety of patient queries received via telephone in person and in writing.
Liaise with other healthcare professionals secretaries and administration teams to coordinate patient care effectively.

About the Candidate

We would welcome applications from those with the following skills and experience:

Audio- and touch-typing skills
Strong administrative experience and good organisation skills
Sound knowledge of medical terminology
Excellent general IT skills includingMS Office and experience of working with a clinical system
Experience in read-coding and work-flowing clinical documentation
Excellent communication skills
Understanding of the needto maintain confidentiality and data security at all times
Ability tomulti-task and to work accurately under pressure
Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently

About Us

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is a friendly long-established award-winning progressive GP practice. We are based over two surgery sites within 10 minutes of each other serving the population of Stanway and Prettygate in Colchester Essex.

We are a training practice and offer services to a population of over 14500 patients.The clinical team consists of eight GPs GP trainee four advanced nurse practitioners three nurses two healthcare assistants and various allied health professionals including GP assistant health and wellbeing coach clinical pharmacist pharmacy technicians care coordinator social prescriber and care advisor.

We hold monthly meetings and training sessions and have a diverse team of clinicians including first contact physio pharmacists ANP/NP care coordinator social prescriber health coach GP assistant and an award-winning team of mental health workers.

Benefits include:

A permanent employment contract.
Competitive salarywith increments based on professional development.
Membership in the NHS pension scheme.
Support for your personal and professional development.
Excellent training and development opportunities.
Enjoy an impressive total of 6 weeks annual leave along with eight bank holidays (pro-rata) this increases with your continuous years of service in the NHS.
Bike rack available.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Required Experience:

Junior IC