Medical Receptionist

Dove Valley Practice is looking to recruit a Medical Receptionist to our team as one of our team is retiring. The successful candidate should be a hardworking, enthusiastic candidate with a good set of interpersonal skills. You should be willing to learn and form part of an effective team.

The contract is for 20.5 hours per week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays plus any required overtime between 7.45am and 6.30pm Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

Dealing with patients requests.

Care navigation.

Arranging appointments.

Taking and processing requests for home visits.

Taking requests for and issuing repeat prescriptions

Answering general enquiries.

Explaining surgery protocols.

Taking messages for other members of staff/colleagues.

Organising patient records.

Collating and sorting new patient medical records prior to summarising.

Filing medical records as necessary.

Scanning hospital results/letters.

Routine administrative duties.

Opening/securing GP consulting rooms, ensuring rooms are tidy and all PCs are closed down correctly.

Ensuring adequate stocks of stationery, leaflets and forms.

Ensuring doctors rooms are adequately supplied.

Following initial training, the use of computerised medical records.

General responsibility for overall appearance of reception area.

Making of refreshments (tea/coffee etc.)

Other tasks as appropriate to the role

We are a long-standing practice, providing excellent quality care in the Barnsley area and rated as 'good' by the CQC. At the moment we have 11 GPs, 2 PAs, 1 ACP and 2 Practice Nurses, as well as other attached staff who provide a wide range of services at 2 surgery sites

As well as a commitment to excellence in looking after our patients, we are also a teaching and training practice for medical students from the Sheffield Universities and GP trainees from the Barnsley Vocational Training Scheme.