Medical Secretary

Job summary

Mersea Island Medical Practice has an opportunity for a medical secretary to join our fantastic team on a part time basis, hours to be discussed at interview.

This is an essential role at the practice, providing an efficient, comprehensive secretarial and administrative support service to the practice clinical team. If you are an experienced medical secretary, then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Providing a full secretarial service for all GPs and health professionals as required.
• Sending referrals via eRS and email, using Ardens templates and formatting letters, reports, and any other correspondence in an accurate and timely manner. This includes some audio typing (Lexacom) but mainly the processing of tasks on EMIS WEB.
• Dealing with hospital, clinical, patient and practice queries via phone and email regarding hospital appointments, correspondence and treatments.
• Following up GP requests for information.
• Managing advice and guidance provided.
• Maintaining the computer-based clinic system in an accurate and secure manner.
• Maintaining an accurate referrals database.
• Performing any administrative tasks requested by the practice operations manager.

About us

We are an established practice in West Mersea and are a branch of the Colte partnership, we also have a CQC rating of good.

We are a training practice, and the team consists of 6 GP partners, 4 registrar, 1 ANP and a nursing team along with a very supportive administrative & reception teams

Our values are:

• To provide high quality, safe, compassionate patient centred healthcare.
• To work collaboratively as a team with honesty, integrity, and personal responsibility.
• To work dynamically, with optimism, adaptability, efficiency, and initiative.