Medical Secretary

Job summary

Rushbottom Lane Surgery has a fantastic opportunity for a medical secretary to join their team on a part time basis, for 24 hours per week.

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

Rushbottom Lane Surgery is made up of two GP Practices, Dr Khan & Partners and St Georges Medical Practice. Dr Khan & Partners and St Georges Medical Practice are both training practices based in Benfleet in Essex. We are active members of Benfleet PCN with Dr R Khan being the PCN CD. We are friendly team, with 12 GP partners across the two practices. We offer the NHS pension scheme and 33 days holiday (pro rata for part-time).