# Receptionist

**Company**: Halbutt Street Surgery
**Location**: Dagenham
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £12.71
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for a part-time receptionist to join our team at Halbutt Street Surgery. As a receptionist, you will be responsible for undertaking general reception duties associated with a GP Surgery.

The main duties of the job include:

- Answering the telephone and booking appointments

- Signposting patients to the appropriate Healthcare Professionals

- Arranging transport and booking interpreters

- Processing incoming and outgoing mail

- Liaising with relevant teams both inside and outside of the practice

Our practice is a friendly and supportive team working together with our Primary Care Network to ensure a high level of patient care. Our practice clinical team comprises of 2 GP Partners, 2 Salaried GPs, 2 Associated GPs, and 1 Practice Nurse.

The salary for this role is £12.71 per hour.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Requests for appointments and marking in patients' arrival for appointments

- Requests for certificates and repeat prescriptions

- Applications to register with the Practice

- Control of confidential material

- Dealing with additional enquiries if necessary

- Supporting the clinical teams

- Using the computer for reception activities

- Delivery of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) & Enhanced Services

- Filing correspondence and documentation

**Person Specification:**

- Good level of education to GCSE standard or equivalent

- Computer literate with excellent keyboard skills

- Self-starter, able to work on own initiative, following set procedures and protocols

- Use of clinical system software (e.g., EMIS)

**Benefits:**

- Permanent part-time position

**Requirements:**

- 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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Skills

### Required
- computer literacy
- excellent keyboard skills
- self-starter
- clinical system software

### Nice to have
- GP Practice experience
- Reception/Customer Care experience

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