About the role
Salary: £14.80 an hour
Our candidate must be enthusiastic and computer literate, preferably with experience in using EMIS WEB although this is not essential as full training will be given on induction. The role is a wide and varied and the successful candidate will provide a range of administration duties such as summarising, read-coding and searches, managing electronic messages, using own initiative, providing a comprehensive administration/clerical service and attending meetings within the practice. You will be organised, quick thinking, be a problem solver, and be empathetic and caring towards our patients, their families and your colleagues. You will be a person who likes working in a team but you should also be able to take responsibility for getting on with your work supporting the smooth running of the practice.
RECEPTION duties.
You who will be the first point of contact for patients, contractors, and visitors as well as carrying out general office management tasks.
You will be responsible for the general administrative and reception duties within the Practice and work with our established processes, policies and procedures to provide a comprehensive high quality service and deal efficiently and courteously with patient enquiries.
You will have excellent communication skills, a compassionate and friendly nature who can operate in a busy environment with a range of people and professions, as you will be working our clinical and administration teams.
Your regular duties in this role will be dealing with telephone, face to face and electronic enquiries, booking and/or amending patient appointments and home visits, contacting patients to provide information from the clinical team and assisting patients to access our services and those available in the wider community.
This role is ideal for someone who is highly organised and an effective communicator who can provide a professional and warm welcome to our patients, ensuring every contact is of the highest quality.
IT skills are essential, as you will be regularly creating searches, data input and monitoring our achievements and progress against national, local, and internal targets. You will also process prescription requests and provide a full administrative and secretarial service.