Medical Receptionist

**COLTISHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE**

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Medical Receptionist**

Responsible to: Practice Manager and Partners

This job description gives details of the role of a receptionist together with the support duties associated with the position. You are required to work as part of a team to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the surgery to deliver the best possible medical service to patients. All staff duties relate to this and all have repercussions on other members of the practice team, it is therefore important to undertake your duties as described below in a professional, courteous, confidential and efficient manner. There will be other duties that will be added as the Practice undergoes its continual development and also as the jobholder develops in post.

Receptionists provide the first point of contact for patient and as such are required to be courteous, sympathetic and professional in these dealings. The need to liaise effectively with other health professionals and colleagues is a major requirement of this post.

**Main Duties**
- To ensure efficiency of appointment system and monitor flow of patients into consulting rooms
- Ensure that patients without appointments but who need urgent consultations are seen in a logical and non-disruptive manner
- Explain practice arrangements and formal requirements to new patients and those seeking temporary cover, ensuring associated procedures are completed
- Ensure reception and work area is kept neat and tidy and ready for use by incoming colleagues, together with information about any unresolved or urgent matters

**General Duties**
- Open premises, check heating and ventilation and restore the telephone service
- Answer telephone and deal appropriately with enquiries within limits of knowledge, confidentiality and experience only
- Being aware at all times which Doctor is on call, his whereabouts and knowing which Doctors are actually working at any given time
- Book appointments ensuring the correct patient is booked on the appointment screen

1.10.15
- Enter requests for home visits onto computer, referring late calls to duty doctor
- Ensure that notification of deaths procedure is followed and interested parties notified
- Taking of repeat prescriptions over the telephone whilst working at branch surgery
- Opening and distributing post
- Scanning and disposal of scanned correspondence after 6 months
- Take telephone messages for all members of the practice team
- Ensure patient and practice confidentiality is maintained at all times
- Maintain and update computer with special attention to registering new patients, temporary residents, change of address/names etc.
- Using computer to access, extract and enter patient information
- Preparing INR results to be checked by nurse and informing the patient
- Ensure computer security is preserved when not at your screen and maintaining password security at all times
- Updating notice boards
- Making tea/coffee and participate in washing up
- Reporting any problems, through the Office Manager, to the Practice Manager
- Securing of premises at the end of the working day, ensuring the building is totally secured in accordance with the Practice protocol
- Follow Practice and reception protocols.

**ANY OTHER DUTIES AS REQUESTED BY PARTNERS, PRACTICE MANAGER**
**OR DEPUTY**

**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, to include:
1.10.15
- 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
- Reporting potential risks identified

**Equality and Diversity**:
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