Medical Receptionist - Full Time
| Posting date: | 27 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £13.85 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £13.85 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2026 |
| Location: | Bury St. Edmunds, IP30 9QU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A0250-26-0001 |
Summary
Key Responsibilities To ensure that an effective and efficient reception service is provided to patients and any other visitors to the practice To deal with all general enquiries and explain surgery procedures Answering the telephone and call navigating to appropriate clinicians or healthcare professional depending on the presenting condition Booking, amending and cancelling patients appointments, ensuring optimum efficiently of the appointment system Monitoring and processing online requests via Anima alongside the duty GPs Receiving and recording requests for home visits, ensuring clinicians have the necessary paperwork To undertake various administrative actions such as scanning and uploading patient documentation as part of the workflow process, ensuring that correspondence such as reports and results are filed electronically in the correct patients record Opening up/locking up of practice premises and maintaining security Processing and distributing incoming and outgoing mail To take messages accurately and pass on information Filing and retrieving paperwork and medical records as necessary To monitor daily inboxes and process digital requests To working collaboratively as part of a team in a fast-paced environment To provide general administrative support such as filing, photocopying and scanning Inputting data and coding patients healthcare records as necessary Resolving low level IT issues and reporting complex IT problems to the relevant organisation To be flexible and provide cover for staff sickness and annual leave as needed To carry out any reasonable duties requested by the Doctors, Practice Manager, Operations Manager Reception Manager or Lead Receptionist