Customer Care Administrator

Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs and now manages several GP practices with around 50,000 registered patients in Northumberland and North Tyneside.
Please note that NPC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Whilst NPC are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process. ________________________________________________________________________________, We are delighted to be able to offer a Customer Care Administrator position working for Widdrington Surgery. The successful post holder will be able to work from any Northumbria Primary Care location with the expectation that one day per week will be worked from Widdrington Surgery.
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 teams to develop into new roles.
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic team player who can demonstrate high standards of customer care and administrative skills. You will become part of an experienced, pro-active, and friendly team working to serve patients through general practice. The hours will be varied between 07:30am and 6.00pm Monday - Friday with the possibility of working to 8.00pm on Thursday.

Main duties of the job
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 both the Widdrington Surgery and Northumbria Innovation Hub at Seaton Delaval. The successful candidate will be providing a high level of customer service to patients of NPC practices.

Working for our organisation
Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs and now manages several GP practices with around 50,000 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To answer telephone calls & respond to all enquires directing the public as appropriate.
To provide admin support to nursing & clinical staff.
To ensure all Emergency Care documentation is coded & filed correctly, and copies are sent to relevant health care professionals.
To provide nonclinical advice to patients, relatives, the public and internal & external agencies.
Responsible for the ordering & maintenance of stock levels clinical & non-clinical.
To receive confidential information by telephone or face to face and input accurately into SystmOne as appropriate. The job requires a broad range of tasks and offers general admin and secretarial support to the team.
To manage correspondence, secretarial duties, nursing admin support and processing patient referrals. Processing and distributing incoming (and outgoing) mail.
To occasionally provide clinical coding of all patient records ensuring all medical history is coded accurately and entered onto the clinical system some of which is sensitive.
The successful applicant will be an employee of the subsidiary and not Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.