Medical Secretary

Job summary

This is an exciting role within our practice to join us as a qualified Medical Secretary within our Secretary Department.Please note, this advert may close early due to high demand. Unfortunately, we do not offer VISA Sponsorship for this role.

To provide general secretarial support to the Practice, Doctors and Health Professionals involving word processing and audio typing skills with general clerical work over two sites.

Main duties of the job

To provide an efficient audio, copy typing and word processing service for GPs and Health Professionals as required. This includes the typing of letters, reports, patient referrals, minutes, memorandums etc. in an accurate and quality manner.

To assist the Senior Secretaries with all clerical and administrative duties

To make appointments, bookings and admissions as required using e-Referral Service and the practice clinical system.

For further information on the role, please see the attached job description.

About us

SAVILLE MEDICAL GROUP is a large and friendly Practice in the centre of Newcastle with a branch surgery at Newbiggin Hall.

We care for approximately 43,500 patients with a high proportion of students in the City Centre and a more typical population in the branch surgery. The workforce consists of 7 GP Partners, 24 Salaried GPs and an extensive Nursing team. In addition, we have a medicines management team including 3 Clinical Pharmacists and over 40 skilled staff members.

We also offer an expanding wellbeing team of 12 staff members with experience in mental health, dementia, children's charities, homelessness, substance misuse, domestic abuse and any patient who struggles to engage with services and needs more support than GPs alone can provide.

Our Primary Care Network is led by one of our GP Partners and Practice Manager enabling us to collaborate with numerous key partners including the CCG, Newcastle Hospital Trust, LMC and our Federation. This helps the practice to remain highly proactive in integrating the latest healthcare policy and digital systems, which makes every day challenging and rewarding.