About the Role

We are excited to announce that we have a new full-time vacancy here at Cobbs Garden Surgery in Olney. We are offering a great opportunity to learn all about primary care in a 35 hour a week post, where you will be working across the the secretary and administrator teams and getting to experience how a surgery works.

Duties include:

Referring patients to secondary care.
Patient contact in reception.
Dealing with requests.
Managing medical letters.
Opening post.
Scanning and coding.
Dealing with prescriptions.
Liaising with GPs, nurses and other members of the team and outside agencies.

The job will be challenging and busy so if enjoy being active and engaged in your work, we would love to hear from you.

About the Candidate

We would welcome applications from those with the following skills and experience:

Ideally you would have some medical experience, but we are willing to train the right person for our team.
Touch-typing skills and writing letters.
Strong administrative experience and good organisation skills.
Ideally some knowledge of medical terminology.
Excellent general IT skills including MS Office
Ideally experience of working with a clinical system
Excellent communication skills.
Understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality and data security, at all times.
Ability to multi-task and to work accurately under pressure.
Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently.

About Us

Our surgery has a great family-feel and situated in the old market town of Olney. We have staff parking, lockers and an outside staff garden room for breaks. We meet regularly and also go out socially!

If you enjoy a supportive work environment where staff are put first this will be the ideal opportunity for you.

We offer -

NHS pension.
Employee Assist Programme (including 24hr free counselling).
25 days holiday, increasing with years of service.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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