Medical Secretary
| Posting date: | 27 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 July 2026 |
| Location: | St Columb, TR9 6RR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A4540-26-0014 |
Summary
Full Job Description Petroc Group Practice has 4 sites, Padstow, St Merryn, St Columb Major and St Columb Road. We are a dispensing practice based in north Cornwall in quite a rural setting. On the beautiful, and hard to beat, north Cornwall coast, we are no Doc Martin. With a population of just over 17,000 we are keen to provide our patients with the services they need, improve patient outcomes and to give continuity of care. We are a friendly and supportive team, with lots of experienced members of staff that are on hand for advice and assistance. We have a varied group of clinicians, with GP Partners, salaried GPs, Medical students and Registrars, sitting alongside Paramedics, Social Prescribers, Clinical Pharmacist, FCP, Nurse Practitioners, HCA's and all our dispensers, admin and secretarial teams. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Medical Secretary to join our Secretarial Team to provide support to the doctors and health professionals and Management Team. The post holder will need to be proficient in audio typing and word processing and will require excellent communication skills. The successful candidate must be flexible in their approach and be able to use their own initiative. Benefits NHS pension Private health care scheme Job responsibilities: To provide an efficient audio, copy typing and word processing service for GPs and health professionals and management team as required. Update SOPs as necessary. Liaise with secondary and primary care colleagues with regards to waiting times and correspondence. To assist the Management Team with all clerical and administrative duties. File patient records and correspondence in patient medical records. To receive incoming and initiate outgoing telephone calls in order to facilitate timely and appropriate communications with others, taking messages and dealing with appropriate queries. To maintain the clinical system in an accurate and secure manner. To monitor practice emails. Apply practice policies, standards and guidance. Any other responsibilities that your line manager feels necessary to the role of medical secretary. Action workflow and tasks. Maintain the computer system in an accurate and secure manner. Medical Secretary skills and qualifications Educated to GCSE level or equivalent. Computer literacy, including a working knowledge of relevant programs, such as Word and Excel. Good spelling and grammar for typing clinical and administrative letters and other correspondence. High level of written and oral communication skills. Excellent organisational skills. Ability to maintain strict confidentiality. Ability to work flexibly as part of a team and independently. AMSPAR medical secretarial or City and Guilds equivalent qualification preferred. Knowledge of the electronic referral system preferred.