Medical Receptionist/administrator

5 months ago

Newcastle, United Kingdom The Village Surgery Full time

Job Summary To receive, assist and direct patients in accessing the appropriate service or healthcare Professional in a courteous, efficient and effective way, and provide general assistance to the practice team whilst projecting a positive and friendly image to patients and other visitors, either in person or via the telephone. Duties and Responsibilities The duties and responsibilities to be undertaken by members of the Practice Receptionist Team may include any or all of the items in the following list. Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the Practice Manager or Senior Receptionist dependent on current and evolving Practice workload and staffing levels: Opening up/locking-up of Practice premises and maintaining security in accordance with Practice protocols. Prior to leaving on an evening, ensure the building is secured.

Ensure an effective and efficient reception service is provided to patients and any other visitors to the Practice. Deal with all general enquiries efficiently and courteously and when necessary in private, explain procedures and make new and follow-up appointments. Using your communication skills to ensure that patients with no prior appointment but who need urgent consultations are seen in a logical and non-disruptive manner or care navigating the patient to the appropriate service. Explain Practice arrangements and formal requirements to new patients and those seeking temporary cover and ensure procedures are completed and registering these patients with the practice.

Processing telephone requests and in person requests for appointments, visits and telephone consultations and ensuring callers are directed to the appropriate healthcare professional. Take messages, ensuring accuracy of detail and prompt appropriate delivery. Process tasks. Enter requests for home visits onto the computer system, ensuring careful recording of all relevant details and where necessary refer to Duty Doctor.

Printing summary printouts for visits. Photocopying/Scanning/Filing Viewing Internet for messages and dealing with them. Action repeat prescription requests and ensure that they are ready for collection by the patient within 48 hours. Printing blood forms.

Advise patients of relevant charges for private (non General Medical Services) services, accept payment and issue receipts for same. Enter/amend patient information onto the computer as required. Retrieve patient notes as required. Ensure that all new patients are registered onto the computer system promptly and accurately.

Re-stock GP consulting rooms as needed Completion of forms as necessary. Process samples received from patients following practice sample protocol. Dealing with urgent results for the GPs and ensuring these are passed to Duty GP as a matter of urgency Liaising with local hospital etc as required. Assisting other members of the Primary Health Care Trust as required.

Covering for absent colleagues as and when necessary. Undertake any other additional duties appropriate to the post as requested by the Partners or the Practice Management Team. Confidentiality In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health and Safety The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health and Safety Policy, and the Practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include: using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines; identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks; making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills; using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards; Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised; keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holders role; und

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