Medical Secretary

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Bedford; Híbrido; GBP 14.000 - 17.000; A tiempo parcial

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

NHS pension

Eye-care vouchers

Annual leave: 28+ days

Descripción de la vacante

The De Parys Group is seeking two medical secretaries to join our team on a part-time basis, working 22 hours per week. The role supports a high-quality primary care service by handling typing, appointment queries, and confidential patient information.

You will also arrange meetings, design templates, and maintain our clinical systems. We value strong typing skills, medical terminology knowledge, and excellent IT abilities.

Formación

• Audio and touch typing skills.
• Experience in a Primary Care/General Practice environment.
• Strong administrative experience and good organisation skills.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Excellent IT skills including MS Office and working with a clinical system.
• Experience in read-coding and workflowing clinical documentation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Understanding of confidentiality and data security at all times.
• Ability to multi-task and work accurately under pressure.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently.

Responsabilidades

• Provide a full secretarial service including typing letters, reports, referrals, meeting minutes and memos.
• Handle queries regarding hospital appointments and treatments.
• Ensure information requests are processed and charges invoiced.
• Arrange meetings and book rooms as required.
• Design template letters and forms for use across the practice.
• Maintain the clinical system securely and accurately.
• Assist with gathering statistics and information.

Conocimientos

Audio typing

Touch typing

Medical terminology

MS Office

Clinical system

Read-coding

Data confidentiality

Communication skills

Teamwork

Herramientas

EMIS Web

SystmOne

Descripción del empleo

About the Role

The De Parys Group has an opportunity for two medical secretaries to join their team on a part-time basis, working 22 hours per week.

With the increasing use of technology in general practice, medical secretaries are playing an increasingly important role in managing patient information and ensuring that healthcare providers have access to the data they need to deliver high-quality care.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Providing a full secretarial service including the typing of letters, reports, patient referrals, meeting minutes, memorandums, etc.
• Handling queries regarding hospital appointments and treatments.
• Ensuring that any requests for information are appropriately dealt with and that all subsequent charges are invoiced appropriately.
• Arranging meetings (to include the booking of rooms) as required.
• Designing template letters and forms for use throughout the practice.
• Maintaining the clinical system, in an accurate and secure manner.
• Assisting with the gathering of statistics and information.

About the Candidate

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

• Audio- and touch-typing skills.
• Experience of working in a Primary Care/ General Practice environment
• Strong administrative experience and good organisation skills.
• Sound knowledge of medical terminology.
• Excellent general IT skills including MS Office and experience of working with a clinical system.
• Experience in read-coding and work-flowing clinical documentation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality and data security, at all times.
• Ability to multi-task and to work accurately under pressure.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently.

About Us

The De Parys Group’s priority is to provide the highest standard of clinical care to the 38,000 patients registered with the practice. We aim to work collaboratively with other healthcare providers and support organisations, to enable more patients to be treated in a primary care setting, closer to home. We embrace a continuous improvement ethos and strive to ensure that we are available to patients when they need a consultation. We have a strong training ethos within the practice with a team of medical and non-medical educators as well as opportunities for non-clinical staff to develop and progress.

TDPG is fortunate to have its own dispensaries at our De Parys and Bromham sites. In addition to our routine GMS services, we offer a comprehensive range of services including minor surgery, LARC provision and anticoagulation clinics.

We have high QOF achievement and excellent KPIs within the group.

Benefits include:

• NHS pension scheme.
• Proper pay and Living Wage Foundation accredited.
• Eye-care vouchers.
• Annual leave: minimum 28 days FTE, with enhancements for long service.
• Paid breaks

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.