Receptionist

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Receptionist
Job Reference: 262-A-21-100668
Employer: Department: James Street Practice Location: Workington, Cumbria Salary: Dependant on Experience
The County of Cumbria not only boasts some of the best and most scenic landscapes in the UK but has a sense of community that is friendly and welcoming and this is reflected in our General practices.
The practices have a collaborative approach to working with mergers becoming common place to streamline workloads and Cumbria are leading on the up skilling of staff to support and sustain general practice for the future.
Whichever practice you see advertised below, we hope it is a practice you enjoy working with as much as we do.
For more information on each practice advertised, please see the additional information sheets or contact the Practice Manager for an informal chat.
Various Hours Available
Hours will be worked between 8am - 6.30pm
Are you an enthusiastic, hard-working, motivated individual who likes to work in a busy, fast paced ever changing team environment? Do you have a positive attitude towards self-improvement, learning and development?
Then we have a role for you....
North Cumbria Primary Care Ltd (NCPC) is an innovative not for profit social enterprise, established to create a network of great surgeries which sustains and supports the development of general practice across the local area. We enable our member general practices to continue to operate as local family practices with the benefit of a large and robust infrastructure to provide support.
Primary Care in Workington is currently going through a major transformational redesign of our clinical model to develop and sustain primary care services, support new ways of working to increase efficiency and improve patient experience of the services we deliver.
Our town’s five GP practices have recently merged and an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and hard-workingReceptionists to join our friendly and forward-thinking team Reception Team.
Work here is sometimes challenging and hard but is always rewarding. For those with lots of experience join us and help shape our future service model. For those who are earlier in their career journey come and develop your skills in our proactive primary care team.
The post holder will act as the first and central point of contact for patients, external agencies and all staff members, providing a first-class level of Reception/Customer Service to patients. You will be required to offer general assistance across the 5 site practice and project a positive and friendly image to patients and other visitors, in person and via the telephone.
You must be a good team player with excellent communication skills, polite and have a good telephone manner.
Please get in touch or come and visit and discuss the possibilities with us.
Lauren.turnbull@gp-a82047.nhs.uk/ 07881276243
Linda.Moore@gp-a82047.nhs.uk
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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