Medical Secretary

Job summary

Little Waltham & Great Notley Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for a medical secretary to join our team of 4 secretaries on a part-time basis for 20-25 hours per week.

This is an essential front-line role at the practice, providing an efficient, comprehensive secretarial and administrative support service to the practice management team.

Main duties of the job

If you are an experienced medical secretary looking for a new and exciting challenge, then we would love to hear from you.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Providing a full secretarial service including efficient audio-typing, copy-typing and word processing, for all GPs and health professionals, as required. This includes the typing of letters, reports, patient referrals, meeting minutes, memorandums, etc., in an accurate and quality manner;
• Handling patient and practice queries, regarding hospital appointments and treatments, confidentially;
• Ensuring that any requests for information from medical records are appropriately dealt with, according to practice policy, and that all subsequent charges are invoiced appropriately;
• Designing template letters and forms for use throughout the practice, as required;
• Maintaining the computer-based clinic system, in an accurate and secure manner;
• Assisting with the gathering of statistics and information, when required;
• Performing any reasonable administrative tasks, as requested by the practice manager.

About us

We are a two site dispensing, training practice based in Chelmsford and Braintree with a patient list size of over 21,000 patients. You would have the full support of our team of 10 doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, healthcare assistants, receptionists, dispensers and admin team.

We offer a range of benefits including:

• NHS pension scheme
  • The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefits scheme
  • Life insurance
  • Ill health benefits
  • 20% employer contribution
• Health service discounts
• Competitive annual leave and study leave