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Medical Receptionist​/Administrator

Job in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, CA13, England, UK
Listing for: The New City Medical Centre
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-14
Job specializations:
  • Healthcare
    Healthcare Administration, Healthcare Nursing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 40000 - 60000 GBP Yearly GBP 40000.00 60000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Due to a NEW and exciting opportunity and expansion we are excited to offer this opportunity to the right candidate.

This exciting career opportunity which does not come round often, offers excellent Pension Incentives, huge scope for career progression, excellent life work balance which include no weekend or Bank Holiday working.

The Practice is situated on the outskirts of Sunderland City Centre just 5 minutes walk away from the Town Centre.

The quality of care and standards of care we strive to deliver to our patients indeed speaks volumes this in return reflected in this years National Patient Survey 2025 where our patients rated us 97% overall satisfaction. We were ranked in the top 10 Practices where our patients voted we delivered excellent standards of care so overall the surveys sent out indicated our patients were satisfied with the care they had received.

The Practice has just been rated Good by the CQC in a recent inspection.

We are a very dynamic and resilient team who have kept one step head of all the current changes within the NHS.

We also work collaboratively with other Practices to deliver extended services such as the Covid Vaccination Campaigns, Extended Access and the delivery of Diagnostic Services.

There is huge scope in career progression, training & development with equal opportunities to enhance further skills within a very busy and fast pace environment.

Main duties of the job

Job Spec.

  • Deal with ALLgeneral telephone enquiries, triage and sign-post patients to appropriate service.
  • Taking requests for prescription orders over the telephone prepare electronic repeat prescription request for electronic signing.
  • Relaying results to patients once actioned by GP
  • Implement appropriate referral proformas to third Party Health Care providers
  • Home visit requests
  • Deal with general enquiries and complaints
  • Register New Patients and Temporary Residents.
  • Direct patients & visitors sign-posting them to appropriate Health Care Professional.
  • Check in patient'sarrival for their appointments on the EMIS Web Clinical System.
  • Handing out prescriptions and fit notes to patients.
  • Ensure outstanding queries are handed over to next shift, as deemed necessary.
  • Filing empty Lloyd
    -George envelopes and New Patient records received from Health Authority ensure records are filed correctly in alphabeticalorder.
  • Dealing with requests for repeat prescriptions prepareprescription for Electronic prescribing.
  • Raising prescriptions as per Practice protocols.
  • Input and extract information from Practice computer system ensuring accuracy.
  • About us

    The Practice has a very low staff turn around, however due to retirement we are happy to advertise this fantastic career opportunity to the right individual

    We all have strong work ethics our motto "no job is more important than the next job" we all play a vital role and pull together as a Team. We provide continual support to one another. We value the voice of our team members, we welcome and embrace change.

    We are always striving to improve services and better standards of care but to enable us to achieve this is hugely based on FULL team effort.

    We encourage job progression training & development so lots of scope to enhance skills and knowledge which can open up other career opportunities.

    The role is not exhausted it promotes a wide variation of specific duties which include Health Care Coordinator this exciting role is fairly new to General Practice and requires a particular skill which training will be provided to the successful candidate The main role: "sign posting patients to the appropriate service/s to best deal with their specific health needs."

    Job responsibilities
  • Main Reception - face to face duties dealing with ALL General related enquiries face to face, New Patient Registrations and Temporary Resident patients who are wishing to join the Practice complete relevant registration forms
  • Meet & Greet welcoming all patients and visitors, sign posting ALL visitors to the correct Health Care Professional ensure visitors have signed the visitors book Ensure ALL patients are checked in to the appropriate Health Care Professional
  • Arrange Interpreting Services appropriate ensuring suitable…
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