Medical Secretary

3 weeks ago


Wallington, Greater London, United Kingdom Shotfield Medical Practice Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly organized and efficient Medical Secretary to join our General Admin Team at Shotfield Medical Practice. As a key member of our team, you will provide administrative support to our GPs, locums, and nursing team, ensuring the smooth operation of our practice.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide exceptional administrative support to our GPs, including receiving and dealing with incoming calls, taking messages, and answering queries.
  • Assess patient requirements, deciding on appropriate action, and providing information or redirecting patients to other services as needed.
  • Record messages, clinical, and non-clinical information, and results for the doctor, ensuring accuracy and timely action.
  • Deal with requests for home visits, taking relevant information, assessing urgency, and ensuring appropriate priority is allocated.
  • Offer a chaperone service to clinicians as required.
  • Communicate with hospital departments, consultants, junior doctors, on-call teams, and secretarial staff to resolve patient queries.
  • Deal with information requests from insurance companies, government agencies, solicitors, employers, and others, ensuring patient consent and preparing computer database reports.
  • Photocopy medical records, issue invoices, and receive payments for completed reports, chasing late payments.
  • Arrange patient transport to hospital appointments, assessing needs against criteria, and arranging transport.
  • Generate repeat prescriptions, adding, amending, and deleting repeat medications as authorized by the GP.
  • Ensure required clinical checks and tests are up to date, advising patients, and making arrangements for these to be done, referring exceptions to the GP.
  • Liaise with other clinical service providers, including district nurses, health visitors, community nurses, social services, and other external agencies as required.
  • Open, receipt, and deal with daily incoming mail, actioning in-line with practice procedures, and directing post as appropriate.
  • Extract and input relevant clinical information from incoming correspondence, entering data to the computer database, ensuring correct coding to maximize financial targets.
  • Deal with incoming medical records, acknowledging computerized receipt, passing records for summarizing within agreed timescales, and collating new records prior to summarizing.
  • Process amendments and deductions via GP links, preparing summaries and copy items for removal, and sending to the PCSE.
  • Address FP69 notifications, contacting patients to clarify contact details, and actioning ID items as requested.
  • Receive electronic OOH notifications, processing information as required, inputting relevant items to patient records, and passing urgent items within the GP workflow if necessary.
  • Attend practice and staff meetings, away days, and training events as required.
  • Participate in the induction of new staff and provide support to other staff members requiring assistance.
  • Use Docman, filing, coding, and distribution as required.
  • Use Ardens and AccuRx as required.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

  • Flexibility to meet the needs of the practice.
  • Emotional ability to cope with job content and work environment.
  • Commitment to equal opportunities and its application in general practice.

Qualifications

  • Good standard of general education.

Desirable

  • Qualification in administration or IT skills (NVQ 3, RSA3, AMSPAR) or equivalent experience.
  • Certificate in basic life support.

Experience

  • Two years in an administrative post in a service environment.

Knowledge

  • Knowledge and understanding of patient confidentiality.
  • Understanding of data protection act.

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and other quality initiatives.

Skills and Abilities

  • Ability to use Microsoft Windows applications.
  • Ability to manage own time.
  • Sound communication skills, able to communicate effectively with the full range of patients and other staff.
  • Ability to use communication skills flexibly to match appropriate situations.
  • Ability to work under pressure, prioritize an unpredictable workload, and deliver outcomes within agreed timescales.
  • Able to use informed judgment regarding health and social care needs.
  • Ability to deal with highly confidential and sensitive information which may be upsetting or distressing.
  • Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

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