As a Receptionist you will work closely with our doctors, nurses, health care assistants and administration team to support the day-to-day smooth operation of our primary care service and be first point of contact to our services.
You will provide reception, appointments line and administration duties for Summerfield Urgent Care Centre.
You will be open, adaptable, and eager to learn and with strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to service users at every stage of their healthcare journey.
This role will be working 33 hours per week, three 11 hour shifts per week.
Package DescriptionYou will feel valued as our Receptionist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£22,308.00 - £23,000 depending on experience FTE
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
Main ResponsibilitiesReception duties:
Opening of the premises.
Greeting and booking in or patients for surgeries and clinics.
Dealing with patient enquiries efficiently and courteously.
To answer telephones promptly ensuring all in-coming lines are covered at all times.
Making appointments on EMIS web, by processing appointment requests for today, future appointments from patients in person and on the telephone.
Restoring the telephone service in the morning and checking for any messages.
Dealing with all telephone queries/requests from patients and acting as liaison with the Doctors/Nurses, as necessary.
Please see job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
Experience in this role is desirable but not essential.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Good customer service skills
Good communication skills
About The CompanyWe 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, di-verse 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 every-one who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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