Medical Secretary

Location

Tamworth, Staffordshire | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Summary Deliver a full secretarial service to the clinical staff and provide assistance to the Practice Management. Job Responsibilities Ensure an effective and efficient secretarial service is provided to clinicians. Refer patients as appropriate via relevant pathway. Process and support the electronic 2 week wait cancer referrals. Ensure that all correspondence leaving the surgery is grammatically correct and spell checked. Ensure that all emails/messages are dealt with on a daily basis. Use clinical system to process tasks received from clinicians or external sources. Scanning in documents required for referrals. Receive and make telephone calls as required. Divert calls and take messages, ensuring accuracy of detail and prompt appropriate delivery. Dealing with the day to day running of the computer systems and entering patient information onto the computer as required. Attend and participate in practice and staff meetings as appropriate. Maintain effective liaison with other agencies and staff concerned with patient care and with other disciplines within the practice, with appropriate regard to confidentiality. Participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment. Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance. Apply practice policies, standards and guidance. Undertake any other additional duties appropriate to the post as requested by the Partners or the practice management.

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