• Job Description

  Req#: M0038-25-0239?language=en&page=208&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Wootton Vale Healthy Living Centre has an excellent opportunity for a practice administrator to join our busy support team, on a part-time basis. The position is for 27.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, working a mixture of 7.45am-1.15pm or 1pm-6.30pm, across our two sites.

  If you are a well organised person, who thrives in a busy working environment where no two days are the same, we'd love to hear from you.

  Main duties of the job

  • Provide full administrative support within the surgery working across a range of departments undertaking a range of administrative duties.
  • Offer general assistance to the practice team and project a positive and friendly image to patients and other visitors, either in person or via the telephone.
  • Receive, assist, and direct patients in accessing the appropriate service or healthcare professional in a courteous, efficient and effective way.
  • Undertake a variety of administrative duties to assist in the smooth running of the practice including the provision of secretarial and clerical support to clinical staff and other members of the practice team.
  • Facilitate effective communication between patients, members the primary health care team, secondary care and other associated healthcare agencies.

  About us

  We are a friendly surgery with a list size of over 17,000 patients, over two sites, Wootton Vale, (MK43 9JJ), and branch site Shortstown Surgery, (MK42 0GS). Both practices are based on the outskirts of Bedford town centre and have easy access and free on-site car parking. Both practices share the same clinical and management teams, & are active members of our PCN, (Caritas).

  We have good appointment access, which means happy patients, and a strong teamwork ethos that includes an established clinical pharmacy team, GPs, nurses, physician associates, and a clinical liaison team who look after the clinical staff.

  We embrace IT and automation and often pilot new innovations. We are an accredited GP training practice for nurses, pharmacists and doctors.

  For further information please visit www.woottonvale.co.uk.

  Date posted

  09 February 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £11.50 an hour

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  8846

  Job locations

  Fields Road

  Wootton

  Bedford

  Bedfordshire

  MK43 9JJ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Ideally candidates will have worked in a GP practice using TPP SystmOne or another GP clinical system.
  • Adaptable and friendly, with strong administration, time management and organisational skills.
  • An excellent communicator able to work in a confidential and discreet manner.
  • Able to "think on their feet" in a busy working environment.
  • Able to multi-task, work hard and maintain a high level of attention to detail, when under pressure.
  • Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, as well as comfortable working independently.
  • Some flexibility is required as you will sometimes need to work additional or alternative hours to cover for colleagues.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • na

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Ideally candidates will have worked in a GP practice using TPP SystmOne or another GP clinical system.
  • Adaptable and friendly, with strong administration, time management and organisational skills.
  • An excellent communicator able to work in a confidential and discreet manner.
  • Able to "think on their feet" in a busy working environment.
  • Able to multi-task, work hard and maintain a high level of attention to detail, when under pressure.
  • Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, as well as comfortable working independently.
  • Some flexibility is required as you will sometimes need to work additional or alternative hours to cover for colleagues.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • na

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  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.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Primary Care Careers

  Address

  Fields Road

  Wootton

  Bedford

  Bedfordshire

  MK43 9JJ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Primary Care Careers

  Address

  Fields Road

  Wootton

  Bedford

  Bedfordshire

  MK43 9JJ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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