About the Role Fern House Surgery in Witham has a fantastic opportunity for a medical secretary to join their team, on a full-time basis for 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. The main responsibilities of the role include:
1. dealing with telephone and email enquiries.
2. managing referrals to secondary care.
3. audio typing of GP Correspondence using a digital dictation system.
4. liaising with patients about their care and assisting GPs with negotiating care pathways.
About the Candidate If you are an experienced medical secretary looking for a new and exciting challenge, then we would love to hear from you. You will have the following skills and experience:
5. Strong audio- and touch-typing skills;
6. Administrative experience and good organisation skills;
7. An understanding of basic medical terminology and knowledge of SystmOne would be desirable but not essential as full training will be provided.
8. Flexibility as the post-holder must be able to cover holiday and sickness.
About Us Fern House Surgery is a large GMS dispensing practice with 8 partners and a list size of 16,500. For further information please contact Sarah George -
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.