About the Role
Creffield Medical Group has a fantastic opportunity for a personal assistant to support their clinical team on a part-time basis, for 32 hours per week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The position is based at Nayland Surgery.
This is a role established to support the clinical teams in carrying out day to day administrative and clinical activity. The role is at the forefront of service delivery to patients providing a source of advice and problem solving for patients.
The postholder will work closely, and under the direction of the clinical team to improve standards across a wide range of clinical and administrative activity. The position is suitable for someone who wishes to demonstrate initiative and to develop their own skills further in the practice.
The main purposes of the role are:
1. To provide support to the clinical teams, and in the running of key systems and procedures such as enquiries, prescriptions, fit notes, medical reports, chasing hospital results and letters, form filling and general organisation duties as required to support the clinical team.
2. To be responsible for the management of the clinical teams diary and rota and to keep the practice manager up to date on any changes to the usual schedules.
3. To manage annual leave requests and organise meeting and attendance as required.
The post-holder will need to become familiar with all functions of the clinical system and their applications plus national and local quality standards for primary care. About the Candidate If you are an experienced Personal Assistant looking for a new and exciting challenge, then we would love to hear from you. You will have the following skills and experience:
4. Strong audio- and touch-typing skills;
5. Administrative experience and good organisation skills;
6. Sound knowledge of medical terminology;
7. Proficiency in the MS Office package, as well as excellent general IT skills and experience of working with a clinical system;
8. Experience in read-coding and work-flowing clinical documentation;
9. Ability to 'think on your feet';
10. Excellent communication skills and a friendly approach;
11. Understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality and data security, at all times;
12. Ability to multi-task and to work accurately under pressure;
13. Ability to work as part of a team, as well as being comfortable working independently.
For further information regarding this role, please see the attached job description.
About Us The Nayland Surgery is within the partnership of the Creffield Medical Group providing general medical services. Creffield Medical Group formed in June 2017. It is an amalgamation of Creffield Medical Centre, Layer Road Surgery and North Hill Medical Group (North Hill Surgery, West Bergholt Surgery and Nayland Surgery). All of the practices operate under the Partnership of Creffield Medical Group. In 2005 we became an accredited training practice linked with Cambridge University, providing training for medical students and GP Registrars.
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.