Medical Receptionist

**ARDINGLY COURT SURGERY BRIGHTON**

**JOB TITLE: Medical Secretary**

**REPORTS TO: Practice manager**

**HOURS: 24 hours per week**

**Job summary**:
The purpose of the role is to:

- Offer general assistance to the practice team and project a positive and friendly image to patients and other visitors, either in person or via the telephone
- Receive, assist and direct patients in accessing the appropriate service or healthcare professional in a courteous, efficient and effective way
- Undertake a variety of administrative duties to assist in the smooth running of the practice, including the provision of secretarial and clerical support to clinical staff and other members of the practice team
- Facilitate effective communication between patients, members of the primary health care team, secondary care and other associated healthcare agencies

**Duties and responsibilities**:
The duties and responsibilities to be undertaken by medical secretary 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 team leader/practice manager, dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels:

- Take minutes for practice meetings. Type and distribute to staff as appropriate. o Meetings coordination including - sending Microsoft teams invites, and agendas, liaising with guests
- To liaise with hospitals/ Clinic/ Laboratories for appointments results and reports
- Ordering of Equipment, office supplies (refreshments/ toners etc), & medical supplies if needed
- Assisting with items for repair; office chairs, equipment, IT equipment
- Filing and retrieving paperwork, patient notes and any other documentation required.
- Providing clerical assistance to practice staff as required from time to time, including word/data processing, filing, photocopying and scanning
- Processing requests for provision of patient records and reports
- Taking messages and passing on information
- Cover for absent staff when requested
- Occasional reception cover when requested and answering of telephones when busy.
- Other duties as and when requested by partners or practice manager

**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 & safety**:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, 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, free from hazards
- Actively reporting 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 holder’s role
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
- Reporting potential risks identified
- Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

**Equality and diversity**:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

**Personal/professional development**:
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as par