Medical Secretary

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**Job title**

Medical Secretary

**Accountable to**

Practice manager

**Hours per week**

20

**Job summary**

To be responsible for undertaking a wide range of secretarial and administrative duties and the provision of administrative support to the multidisciplinary team.

Duties can include, but are not limited to, the processing of information (electronic and hard copy) in a timely manner, liaising with multidisciplinary team members and external agencies such as secondary care and community service providers in accordance with current policies, including the use of the electronic referral service (ERS).

**Mission statement**

At The Elms Medical Practice our Mission Statement is:
To provide the best Primary Care Services possible by working in partnership with our patients, staff local initiatives, national guidelines, regulations, and governance.

Our Vision:
“To be the leading practice for patient experience and clinical outcomes”

Our values are:

- Quality Care
- Integrity
- Compassion

**Generic responsibilities**

All staff at The Elms Practice have a duty to conform to the following:
**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**

A good attitude and positive action towards Equality Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) creates an environment where all individuals can achieve their full potential. Creating such an environment is important for three reasons - it improves operational effectiveness; it is morally the right thing to do, and it is required by law.

Patients have a responsibility to treat other patients and our staff with dignity and respect.

**Safety, Health, Environment and Fire (SHEF)**

This organisation is committed to supporting and promoting opportunities for staff to maintain their health, wellbeing and safety.

The post holder is to manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients and monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.

All personnel have a duty to take reasonable care of health and safety at work for themselves, their team and others and to cooperate with employers to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements.

All personnel are to comply with the:

- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- Environmental Protection Act 1990
- Environment Act 1995
- Fire Precautions (workplace) Regulations 1999
- Coronavirus Act 2020
- Other statutory legislation which may be brought to the post holder’s attention

**Confidentiality**

The organisation is committed to maintaining an outstanding confidential service. Patients entrust and permit us to collect and retain sensitive information relating to their health and other matters pertaining to their care. They do so in confidence and have a right to expect all staff will respect their privacy and maintain confidentiality.

It is essential that, if the legal requirements are to be met and the trust of our patients is to be retained, all staff must protect patient information and provide a confidential service.

**Quality and Continuous Improvement (CI)**

To preserve and improve the quality of this organisation’s outputs, all personnel are required to think not only of what they do but how they achieve it. By continually re-examining our processes, we will be able to develop and improve the overall effectiveness of the way we work.

The responsibility for this rests with everyone working within the organisation to look for opportunities to improve quality and share good practice and to discuss, highlight and work with the team to create opportunities to improve patient care.

The Elms Practice continually strives to improve work processes which deliver healthcare with improved results across all areas of our service provision. We promote a culture of continuous improvement where everyone counts, and staff are permitted to make suggestions and contributions to improve our service delivery and enhance patient care.

Staff should interpret national strategies and policies into local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice.

All staff are to contribute to investigations and root cause analyses whilst participating in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews.

**Induction**

At The Elms Practice, you will be required to complete the induction programme and the practice management team will support you throughout the process.

**Learning and development**

The effective use of training and development is fundamental in ensuring that all staff are equipped with the appropriate skills, knowledge, attitude and competences to perform their role. All staff will be required to partake in, and complete mandatory training as directed.It is an expectation for this post holder to assess their own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate

The post holder