Penns are looking to recruit an experienced Medical Secretary to join the team of a GP Surgery in Sutton Coldfield. The successful candidate will need to be a self-motivated individual with relevant all round secretarial experience, excellent medical terminology, audio typing, telephone and customer service skills. The hours can be flexible, so you can work either 3, 4 or 5 days to suite. You decide.
Main duties:
- To provide full support for the medical team, ensuring an efficient and effective clerical and administrative service to the practice
- To assist the doctors in the provision of accessible, effective and high quality medical services
- To receive, process and dispatch clinical correspondence
- To record, action, and monitor the outcome for requests for home visits and transport
- Audio & copy typing of letters and medical correspondence
- Respond to general enquiries and requests made to the Surgery
- Be courteous, confidential and sympathetic to patients at all times
- To contribute to the overall effectiveness of the Surgery team
- Dealing with NHS & Private referrals issued by the Doctor’s
- All Secretarial duties as required
Skills:
- Having good organisational and language skills.
- Secretarial experience is a must
- Having high attention to detail
- Being able to stay calm under stressful circumstances.
- Having interpersonal abilities and tactfulness
- Good IT skills.
- Maintain effective filing and recording system for patient data.
- Be discreet with confidential information.
- Good written and spoken communication.
- EMIS workflow manager (desirable)
- RSA Typing/audio stage 1&2 minimum or equivalent
- Medical terminology
This position will be subject to Disclosure & Barring service (formerly known as DBS)
If you are interested in working within a great team and utilising your secretarial skills then I want to hear from you. please apply now for more information.
