North Chelmsford Healthcare Centre is looking to recruit an Admin Assistant to join our busy Admin Team, working across both our main site and our branch surgery in Beaulieu.

The successful candidate will have excellent administrative, keyboard and organisational skills, with strong attention to detail and a good standard of English, both written and verbal. We require at least two years of administrative experience in an office setting. An excellent telephone manner is essential.

Duties will include:

  • Typing and processing of referrals (minimum typing speed 50 words per minute)
  • Summarising medical records
  • Processing and coding incoming patient information
  • Entering discharge summaries and read coding any problems
  • Raising blood test requests and allocating blood results to the GPs
  • Contacting and liaising with hospitals/external services/patients as requested by clinicians
  • Chasing results
  • Processing tasks within our clinical system
  • Processing registrations
  • Dealing with patient enquiries via post, email, telephone and our triage system

Hours: Minimum 22.5 hours per week (excluding a 30-minute unpaid lunch break each day)

  • Tuesday: 8:00am–4:00pm
  • Wednesday: 10:00am–6:00pm
  • Friday: 8:00am–4:00pm

Additional hours are available within the contract, and the successful candidate may work longer days (e.g. 8:00am–6:00pm).

Benefits

  • NHS Pension
  • 4 weeks’ annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Day off for your birthday
  • Free parking at North Chelmsford Healthcare Centre
  • Access to wellbeing resources

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Please note that should this vacancy attract sufficient interest, it may be necessary to close the vacancy at an earlier date. We therefore encourage early applications to avoid disappointment. This post is subject to a DBS check and satisfactory references. We are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Selection for employment will be based on merit, skills, qualifications and experience
Julie Chinnick
North Chelmsford Healthcare Centre, 2 White Hart Lane, Chelmsford, CM2 5EF