# Medical Secretary

**Company**: The Park Practice
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £14.00 to £14.49
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are a busy and friendly GP practice in South East London looking for a reliable, motivated and professional Medical Secretary to join our team. The role includes a range of secretarial and administrative duties, providing comprehensive support to our GPs and other healthcare professionals.

The successful candidate will provide efficient secretarial and administrative support to GPs and other healthcare professionals. Key responsibilities include audio typing and clinical correspondence, processing NHS e-Referrals, managing patient records and electronic documents, and liaising with patients, hospitals, clinicians and external healthcare services.

Excellent communication, organisational, IT and secretarial skills are essential. Previous experience in general practice or another healthcare setting is highly desirable, particularly experience using EMIS, Docman and Lexacom.

We are looking for an organised and dependable individual who can manage competing priorities, maintain confidentiality and work effectively both independently and as part of a supportive practice team.

**Main duties of the job**

- Audio and copy typing of clinical letters, reports, referrals and other correspondence.

- Processing and managing referrals through the NHS e-Referral Service, ensuring relevant information and attachments are submitted promptly.

- Using Lexacom to process clinician dictation.

- Managing incoming and outgoing correspondence, emails and electronic documents.

- Scanning and filing correspondence using Docman and maintaining accurate patient records on EMIS.

- Maintaining secure and effective administrative and filing systems in accordance with confidentiality and data protection requirements.

- Assisting with medical and insurance reports and requests for patient information.

- Liaising with patients, GPs, hospitals, consultants and other healthcare services.

- Making and receiving telephone calls, taking messages and dealing appropriately with queries.

- Supporting general practice administration.

- Providing cover for secretarial and administrative colleagues during periods of annual leave or sickness.

**Benefits**

- NHS Pension Scheme available.

**About us**

We are looking for a full-time secretary although job share would also be possible.

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## Skills

### Required
- EMIS
- Docman
- Lexacom
- audio typing
- clinical correspondence
- NHS e-Referrals
- patient records
- electronic documents

### Nice to have
- previous medical secretarial experience
- general practice experience

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