Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a medical secretary to join our friendly, forward-thinking and supportive team at Unity Health. This would be a part-time role across 5 days and would be mainly based in Brill plus travel to another site 1 day per week. This busy yet rewarding role requires excellent attention to detail, team working skills and a responsible attitude. You will need to be able to remain calm under pressure, multi-task, have great computer skills and be very organised. Due to the nature of the role, flexibility to work extra hours to cover for holiday and sickness is required.

Job responsibilities

This part-time role and would be mainly based in one of our five sites plus travel to another site at least 1 day per week. This busy yet rewarding role requires excellent attention to detail, team working skills and a responsible attitude. You will need to be able to remain calm under pressure, multi-task, have great computer skills and be very organised. Due to the nature of the role, flexibility to work extra hours to cover for holiday and sickness is required.

Main duties of the job

1. To generate hospital referrals using the electronic referral system and manual referrals to the community using AccuRx. This involves copy typing, generating specific referral forms and general instructions from the clinician. Ensuring that these are done in a timely manner. 2. To manage both electronic referral system worklists and EMIS worklists.

3. To receive and deal with telephone enquiries and emails received to the generic email address and take action or pass on messages, as appropriate.

4. To produce copies of patient records from the computer system and photocopying of paper medical records for insurance reports, solicitors and other requesting parties. Manage completion of any travel claim forms, private health forms and firearms licensing forms.

5. Raise the appropriate invoice covering any work for which the practice may make a charge. This will include insurance reports, reports for solicitors and private patients.

6. Chase queries at the hospital, understanding when things have gone down an incorrect pathway and re-address as necessary.

7. Action patient tasks sent to the secretarial groups within EMIS web, Docman and Klinik.

8. To input, extract and refer to information on the practice computer system.

9. To carry out any ad-hoc administrative duties as required by the senior management team or Partners.

10. To attend training courses and staff meetings as requested by the senior management . These may not be held during the normal working hours for the post

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a secretary preferably within the healthcare profession.

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary or secondary care.

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSE grade to A to C in English and Maths

Pay from - £13.64

To apply - please email your cv to Unityhealth.bucks@nhs.net and mark it for the attention of Sarah Muspratt who is the Secretary Manager.