Receptionist/Administrator - Chelmsford

Location: Sutherland Lodge Surgery

Salary: Up to £23,653.50 depending on experience

Hours: 37.5

Help us to deliver great primary care by improving access, outcomes and patient experience. At Operose Health, we deliver local primary care, at scale. It is our purpose to improve access, outcomes and patient experience. Our colleagues live our values and are empowered to be the best they can be for our patients, and each other – because we CARE.

• Caring: We listen and through compassion, understanding and a willingness to keep an open mind, we support and empower people to have a healthier future.
• Ambitious: Through determination and our passion for transforming the patient experience, we continue to redefine and revolutionise the future of primary care.
• Resourceful: Creative, agile, with a devotion for lifelong learning, we go above and beyond to improve the quality of our services.
• Excellence: We strive to do the best we can do and be the best we can be for our patients, employees and NHS partners.

Main Responsibilities:

• Responding to patient queries and liaising with the wider primary care team as well as managing appointment requests, signposting patients to our range of services and maintaining patient records and confidentiality.
• Emailing, scanning and coding clinical correspondence.
• Processing prescription requests.
• Utilising other information systems to support efficient workflow processes.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Reception or customer care experience is essential as well as an excellent communicator both spoken and written.
• Must have basic PC skills such as Word, Excel and email.
• Able to work within processes, procedures and maintain confidentiality and data security.
• Previous experience of working in the NHS is welcome but not essential.

Package Description:

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays pro rata.
• Access to our bespoke learning management system and annual formative clinical assessments to support competency development.
• The benefits of working with an at scale provider of primary care means that we have lots of opportunities for our colleagues to specialise and develop.
• Car benefit scheme – specialising in electric vehicles.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Travel season ticket loans.
• Discount cards.
• Employee wellbeing services including free yoga videos and employee wellbeing app.

About the Company:

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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