Medical Secretary

Job summary

Shirland Road Medical Centre based in W10 is looking for a part time professional, well presented Medical Secretary to join our friendly team.

You will be required to provide efficient administrative and secretarial support.

Previous Secretarial Experience is essential for this role.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Good secretarial experience
• excellent all round administrative and IT skills
• a good understanding of medical terminology
• be able to communicate effectively with patients and doctors
• be able to work well under pressure, react quick, multi-task and have a friendly positive attitude

Salary: dependent upon experience , Annual leave: 25 days + bank holidays pro rata

Hours of work:

• Thursday 9.00 13.00 & Friday 8.00 17.00 (one-hour lunch break) (some flexibility will be considered with regards to start and finish times)

If you wish to apply, please send us your CV and covering letter.

Main duties of the job

Job summary:

To provide general secretarial support to the practice manager, doctors and health professionals involving word processing and audio typing skills with general clerical work.

Job responsibilities:

• To provide an efficient typing and word processing service for GPs and health professionals as required.
• To assist the practice manager with all clerical and administrative duties including contacting patients i.e. recalling etc...
• To book hospital appointments via eRS booking system
• To establish and maintain filing and administrative systems so that written or computer information is easily accessible and secure.
• To retrieve electronic and paper medical records and assist the completion of medical/insurance reports
• To receive incoming and initiate outgoing telephone calls in order to facilitate timely and appropriate communications with others, taking messages and dealing with appropriate queries.
• To maintain the computer clinic system in an accurate and secure manner.
• To assist with the gathering of statistics and information when required.
• To provide cover for members of the administration and reception teams during periods of sickness and annual leave.
• Assisting management in the ordering of stationary

About us

Shirland Medical is a well-established GP surgery committed to providing high quality general medical care and enhanced services to our practice population with forward thinking approach. Shirland Medical has a friendly close team consisting of: 5 GP's, 2 Practice Nurses and 2 HCA's, Practice and Associate Managers, Medical Secretary and 3 Reception staff.