Admin Clerk
Primary Care CareersBury St Edmunds, East of England
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Primary Care Careers based in Bury St Edmunds. The advertised salary is £12.78. Applications close on 30 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Mount Farm Surgery has an opportunity for an administrator to join our busy practice support team and assist in the smooth delivery of excellent patie...
- Processing all incoming and outgoing post and dealing with it appropriately
- Answering incoming phone calls to admin and responding accordingly
- Processing all documents and tasks in a timely manner
- Processing patient requests and queries
- Handling and processing GP admin e.g. chasing up results, GP requests, contacting patients etc
- Booking various recall appointments e.g. annual review appointments
- Processing all registrations in a timely manner and ensuring that they are kept up to date
- Adherence at all times to agreed workflow and security procedures of the admin department
- Regularly checking emails and replying as necessary
- Processing deductions on a regular basis
- Assisting patients, doctors and hospital staff with administrative/secretarial enquiries on the telephone
- Word processing all GP correspondence both via digital dictation and composing appropriate letters
- Completion and submission of referral forms
- Participate in staff meetings
- General secretarial duties
- Undertaking any training required
- Participating in, upon request, any meetings, one-to-ones, interim reviews and appraisals
- Assisting the senior admin clerk with the day to day running of the admin department, and reporting to her as appropriate
- From time to time, the job holder may be asked to work additional shifts to cover holiday and sickness absences
- Any other duties you may reasonably be required to undertake at the discretion of your line manager
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you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the
attached job specification.
Mount Farm Surgery is a dynamic, forward-thinking GP practice in Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds.
In return for your hard work, Mount Farm is delighted to offer:
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Membership of the NHS contributory pension scheme
- Option of NHS discounts & Blue Light Card for retail/dining/holidays etc.
- A fully equipped kitchen and staff room
- Paid gym membership
Essential: - An experienced administrator, with excellent IT, time management and organisational skills.; - Ability to communicate effectively, working in a confidential and discreet manner.; - Ability to multi-task, work efficiently and maintain a high level of attention to detail, when under pressure.; - Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, as well as independently.; - Primary care experience is desirable but not essential.; - Some flexibility is required as you will sometimes need to work additional or alternative hours to cover for colleagues. All applicants should ensure that they live within reasonable commuting distance.
How this role compares
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,295 of them in East of England.
You have 9 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
Primary Care Careers has 80 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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