Medical Secretary and Team Lead

The Middlewood Partnership

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Job summary

We are looking for an experienced medical secretary who can lead and manage our secretarial team. This is a unique opportunity to be part of, and contribute to, the development of a new and innovative primary care organisation. You will be working alongside our:

Patient Records Lead Manager Practice base managers HR Lead Other members of our senior management team

We are looking for someone who is interested in contributing to and leading change. This is a new role and therefore comes with the opportunities and challenges of establishing new ways of working. The successful candidate should have an interest in change and establishing a strong team.

Main duties of the job

Ideally you will need to have an understanding of primary care delivery systems and significant experience as a medical secretary and previously have managed a team. The successful candidate will understand the opportunities and challenges within General Practice and be able to interact knowledgeably with practice managers, administrators and health professionals.

In the role you will work with our team of existing medical secretaries to establish a secretarial function that has clear processes and procedures to ensure safe and timely management of secretarial support across the Partnership.

Please see attached Job description for more details

About us

The Middlewood Partnership consists of four merged GP practices serving 34,000 patients across three villages in North East Cheshire. We are a Primary Care Network providing high quality, sustainable, General Practice care from premises in Bollington, Disley and Poynton.

The successful candidate will share our values and have the energy, skills and enthusiasm to contribute to shaping our organisation. We are looking to recruit an individual who will undertake work across our four base practices, but will be based at our Priorslegh Medical Centre base.

Date posted

20 July 2021

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A3049-21-8209

Job locations

Bollington Medical Centre

Wellington Road

Bollington

SK10 5JH


Park Lane

Poynton

Stockport

Cheshire

SK12 1GP


5 Chester Road

Poynton

Stockport

Cheshire

SK12 1EU


2 Buxton Old Road

Disley

Stockport

Cheshire

SK12 2BB


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached file for full job description and person spec

Duties and Responsibilities will include aspects of

  • Change management - establishing processes and procedures for the secretarial function
  • Human resources - in your capacity as Team Leader you will be responsible for HR activities for your direct reports such as appraisals, recruitment/induction, performance management, managing staffing levels etc

  • Secretarial Support - part of your role will be as Team Leader but it is also anticipated that you will make a major contribution to the delivery of general medical secretarial support

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached file for full job description and person spec

Duties and Responsibilities will include aspects of

  • Change management - establishing processes and procedures for the secretarial function
  • Human resources - in your capacity as Team Leader you will be responsible for HR activities for your direct reports such as appraisals, recruitment/induction, performance management, managing staffing levels etc

  • Secretarial Support - part of your role will be as Team Leader but it is also anticipated that you will make a major contribution to the delivery of general medical secretarial support

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE or equivalent in English language

Experience

Essential

  • Relevant qualifications or demonstrable experience of having worked for 5 years as a medical secretary
  • Previous experience of managing a team
  • Previous experience of having implemented change
  • Experience of working in an environment with conflicting pressures and changing workload
  • Experience of working within a team and of developing good working relationships with internal and external staff at all levels
  • Experience of collating data and extrapolating information
  • Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload.
  • Able to write clearly and concisely
  • Able to present data and information in easily understandable formats

Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to represent the Partnership in a professional manner at all times
  • A flexible approach with the ability to work under pressure and deal with conflicting demands
  • An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE or equivalent in English language

Experience

Essential

  • Relevant qualifications or demonstrable experience of having worked for 5 years as a medical secretary
  • Previous experience of managing a team
  • Previous experience of having implemented change
  • Experience of working in an environment with conflicting pressures and changing workload
  • Experience of working within a team and of developing good working relationships with internal and external staff at all levels
  • Experience of collating data and extrapolating information
  • Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload.
  • Able to write clearly and concisely
  • Able to present data and information in easily understandable formats

Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to represent the Partnership in a professional manner at all times
  • A flexible approach with the ability to work under pressure and deal with conflicting demands
  • An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust

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.

Employer details

Employer name

The Middlewood Partnership

Address

Bollington Medical Centre

Wellington Road

Bollington

SK10 5JH


Employer's website

https://middlewoodpartnership.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

The Middlewood Partnership

Address

Bollington Medical Centre

Wellington Road

Bollington

SK10 5JH


Employer's website

https://middlewoodpartnership.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

HR Assistant

Sarah Kalnins

sarah.kalnins@nhs.net

01663762484

Date posted

20 July 2021

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A3049-21-8209

Job locations

Bollington Medical Centre

Wellington Road

Bollington

SK10 5JH


Park Lane

Poynton

Stockport

Cheshire

SK12 1GP


5 Chester Road

Poynton

Stockport

Cheshire

SK12 1EU


2 Buxton Old Road

Disley

Stockport

Cheshire

SK12 2BB


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