Medical Secretary

Primary Care Careers; Wickford; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Wickford is looking for a full-time medical secretary to manage patient information and support the healthcare team. Responsibilities include providing a full secretarial service, handling hospital queries, and ensuring data security. Ideal candidates will have audio-typing skills, experience in a GP setting, and strong IT skills. Join a dedicated team committed to high-quality care.

Qualifications

• Audio- and touch-typing skills required.
• Ideally have primary care experience in a GP surgery.
• Sound knowledge of medical terminology is essential.
• Excellent general IT skills including MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Provide full secretarial service including typing letters and reports.
• Handle queries regarding hospital appointments.
• Maintain clinical system accurately and securely.
• Assist with gathering statistics and information.

Skills

Audio- and touch-typing skills

Primary care experience

Strong administrative experience

Knowledge of medical terminology

General IT skills including MS Office

Experience in read-coding

Ability to maintain confidentiality

Multi-tasking abilities

Teamwork

Job description

Robert Frew Medical Partners has an opportunity for a medical secretary to join their team on a full-time basis for 37.5 hours per week on 5 days. 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.

Main duties of the job

• 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 us

The Robert Frew Medical Partners practice is a GP Practice across two surgery sites. We pride ourselves on providing a high standard of care to our 18,500 patients. Our practice team comprises of nine GP Partners, one salaried GP, supported by a highly experienced team of nurses, midwives, admin team, GP locums, reception team, paramedic and pharmacist team. We are also a GP training practice.

Job responsibilities

Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please do nothesitate to get in contact with us.

Person Specification

Experience

• Audio- and touch-typing skills.
• Ideally primary care experience gained within a GP surgery.
• 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.
• 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.

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.