Medical Secretary

Job summary

The Burnham Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for a medical secretary to join their team on a part-time basis, for 15 hours per week on 2 days of the week - Thursday & Friday. 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

• 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;
• Arranging meetings (to include the booking of rooms) as required;
• 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

• Rural based practice with 9,700 patients. 25% of patients over 65 years old.
• Practice covers several rural communities. Limited but regular bus and train service. We are approx. 45min-1 hour away from the nearest Accident and Emergency Dept
• 3 GP trainers on site. With additional part-time partner and 1 salaried GP
• We currently are a training practice and we currently have 3 registrars and Medical Student Year 1 & Year 3-4 LIC students. We also have had nurse trainees.
• Our GPs specialise in dermatology, cardiology, diabetes & womens Health
• We have 5 nurses, 4 HCAs, secretaries, care navigators and admin staff are always happy to help or assist in anyway.
• Affiliated with the surgery we also have clinical pharmacists, a paramedic, first contact physios, a midwife, social prescriber and community agent who work on the premises and off site.
• Practice is open 5 days a week 8am 6.30pm. Surgery offers extended access evening and weekend via the PCN.
• We offer in addition to general medical services - LARC & implants, 24 hr ECG & BP monitoring, anticoagulant monitoring and phlebotomy. As well as being a distance from A&E we are often the 1st call when there has been a minor injury.