Medical Secretary

Job summary

Ambrose Avenue Practice has a fantastic opportunity for a medical secretary to join their team on a full-time basis to act as a central point of contact for the clinical team.

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

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

Main duties of the job

• Typing all letters, medical referrals and tasks using the appropriate proforma, template, or headed letter.
• Referring via the e-referrals system and other referral pathways.
• Typing all letters and medical referrals promptly, prioritizing those marked as 2ww and Urgent.
• Chasing referrals/results, contact the appropriate consultants secretary/hospital.
• Emailing anything that needs to be sent urgently.
• Keeping an updated record of appropriate names and telephone and email addresses of organisations suitable for practice use.
• Any other typing that the clinical team may require and all any other secretarial duties that may be required by the doctor and management team.

About us

We are a friendly, innovative and progressive GP surgery providing services to a diverse population in Colchester. We are a training practice and offer services to a population of over 15,000 patients across two sites (Ambrose Avenue and Tollgate).

Benefits include:

• Competitive Salary
• Company pension
• On-site parking
• Bike rack
• Shower
• Easy access to A12 to London and Ipswich

For further information please contact Annie Bailey - annie.bailey2@nhs.net