Personal Assistant

Job summary

Houghton Close Surgery has an exciting opportunity for a personal assistant/secretary to join our busy practice support team, on apart-time basis for 8 hours per week, over 2 days, to assist the practice management team.

Main duties of the job

If you are a well organised person, who thrives in a busy working environment where no two days are the same, we'd love to hear from you. The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Acting as a first point of contact for callers, dealing with emails and phone calls by responding, passing on messages or highlighting them for the management teams attention.
• Managing diaries and organising meetings.
• Organising events.
• Reminding the management team of important tasks and deadlines.
• Typing, compiling and preparing reports, presentations and correspondence.
• Managing system databases and filing systems.
• Implementing and maintaining procedures/administrative systems.
• Liaising with staff, patients and allied healthcare providers.
• Any other miscellaneous tasks to support the management team.

About us

Houghton Close Surgery is a large GMS dispensing practice located in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, looking after approximately 11,700 patients. We are an active member of our primary care network and are rated CQC Good and are a high QoF achieving practice.

We are a dynamic GP partnership consisting of 6 GP partners, 2 salaried GPs and supportive administrative, nursing and dispensary teams. We are forward thinking, innovative and open to ideas. We care for our patients and aim to provide them with an excellent quality of care. We are a training practice and also take medical students from Cambridge University throughout the year.

For further information please contact susan.green36@nhs.net