Senior Customer Care Administrator

Job overview

We are looking to recruit a friendly, motivated and professional senior customer care administrator to join our team.  Ideally, the successful candidate will have a background of working in primary care, as well as strong customer service and administrative skills.

This position will be based at NPC Lynemouth. The successful candidate will be providing a high level of customer service to patients of NPC practices. This is a post for both & full time positions and hours would be considered and explored further at interview stage. 

Northumbria Primary Care is a developing, dynamic organisation with a clear vision for Primary Care service delivery. We are pushing the boundaries of how we deliver our services, which is facilitating greater opportunities for our staff.

You must be able to prioritise workload without supervision and have good organisational and IT skills.  Provide secretarial support to GP's and clinicians.  You will be required  to help out on the telephones as and when required.  Answer telephone calls, respond to all enquiries, direct the public as and when appropriate, provide admin support to nursing & clinical staff. Full training will be provided on the use of SystmOne.

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·         Answer telephone calls & respond to all enquiries directing the public as appropriate

·         Provide broad range of tasks and general admin and secretarial support to practice staff.

·         Ensure timely appointments for patients attending the GP service, triaging according to urgency

·         Process patient referrals.

·         Ensure all Emergency Care documentation is coded & filed correctly, and copies are sent to relevant health care professionals.

·         Receive confidential information by telephone or face to face and input accurately into patient service systems.

·         Occasionally provide clinical coding of all patient records ensuring all medical history is coded accurately and entered into the clinical system

·         Contribute to the delivery of a comprehensive primary care medicine management system.

• Undertake activities at practice level which contribute to the efficient and effective delivery of medicines to patients.

Working for our organisation

Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs and now manages several GP practices with around 120,000 registered patients in Northumberland and North Tyneside.

Whilst appointees will have a base practice within NPC, they may be asked to work at other practices across our group. We do however limit this as much as possible as we appreciate continuity is vital to effective primary care.

Please note that NPC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before applying to join our fantastic organisation.