Medical Receptionist

**Post**: Medical Receptionist Accountable to: GP Partners, Practice Manager, Reception Manager Specific Duties Greeting patients politely and ensuring that the appointment system is running efficiently, monitor the flow of patients to and from consulting rooms, managing queues through telephone and face to face interaction. Ensure patients are informed if a clinician is running late or called out. Ensure urgent extras are monitored with appropriate guidance. Advise patients of relevant charges for non-NHS services, accept payment and issue receipt for same.

Explain practice arrangements and requirements for new and temporary patients. Accept registration forms from prospective patients ensuring adherence to practice policies. Respond to all queries and requests for assistance from patients and other visitors to the practice as appropriate. Enter requests for home visits including all relevant information.

Deal efficiently with emergency situations. Maintain a supply of relevant bags, bottles and stationary to keep consulting rooms stocked; ensure rooms have adequate supplies. Keep reception areas clean and tidy. Handle specimens as per practice protocol.

Management of Appointment System Maintain working knowledge of the appointment system i.e. times of all clinics, duration of appointments, knowledge of computer system, doctors rotas, procedures for booking routine and emergency appointments. Book appointments accurately and appropriately. Monitor daily available appointments and report any overload to the Reception Manager/Supervisor as appropriate.

Ensure sufficient appointments are blocked off for urgent and triage appointments. Management of Medical Records andAdministration Ensure medical records are kept accurately in alphabetical order, in easily retrievable fashion and kept tidy. Retrieve and re-file records as required by clinical staff. Carry out scanning of clinical documents as per written procedures, ensuring accuracy of appending to electronic patient record.

Ensure efficient storage of scanned letters for confidential destruction. Operation of Telephone System Receive and make calls as required. Divert calls and take messages as appropriate, recording information for clinicians to action (home visits, phone calls etc.) Ensure phones are accurately transferred to and from night duty service and report any faults to the Reception Manager/telephone provider. Patient Liaison Provide non clinical patient care, dealing with requests for information, test results, requests to speak to clinical staff, ensuring confidentiality and privacy for patients.

Ensure patients have access to any relevant leaflets, support groups, carers association etc. Information Technology and Audit Duties Maintain working knowledge of computer/clinical system, reporting any problems to the Reception Manager. Adhere to practice policies regarding security and confidentiality, records management roles and responsibilities and computer skills. Building Report any maintenance matters to the Reception Manager Confidentiality & data protection Where it is a requirement of the job for the post-holder to use computers or other information technology, he/she will be required to ensure that security procedures are followed as appropriate and that confidential information for example, passwords, are not communicated to unauthorised individuals.

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 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 practice as a business organisation.