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Medical Receptionist
Grade U0E4: £26,093 - £28,778 per annum pro-rata as part-time
School of Population Health Sciences/Usher Institute/Mackenzie Medical Centre
Part-time: 30 hours per week
Open-ended (permanent contract)
The Opportunity:
To work in a busy, friendly medical practice providing general medical services. Our practice list of 8600 is made up from the local population of the southeast of Edinburgh. The team consists of 10 GPs, two nurses, 8 medical receptionists, 1 medical secretary, 1 IT/assistant manager and a practice manager.
Your skills and attributes for success:
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proven organisational skills.
• Ability to work in a team and to use own initiative.
• Ability to prioritise tasks.
This post part-time (30 hours per week). Monday to Friday - until 6:15pm. 100% on campus working.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Gillian Mossman, Practice Manager, Gillian.mossman@nhs.scot
How to apply
Please include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter
As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, a wide range of staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page and use our reward calculator to discover the value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality, diversity, and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter, and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 3rd May 2026.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm UK time. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Work with us | Usher Institute - where inquiring minds work together to improve lives across the world.
Join our growing team of academics and professional services staff and work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment. Our vision is to catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data.
Our greatest asset is our people, working together to improve public health using evidence-based research.
We are a key applied and translational arm of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh. Working with partners across UK and international universities, health and care providers, policymakers, industry and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About the Team
We draw together researchers, clinicians and practitioners from public health, primary care, biomedical and social sciences - with roots going back to the first Chair of Public Health in the UK, established in 1898.
For more information, visit the Population Health Sciences website (https://usher.ed.ac.uk/research/population-health-sciences) (opens in a new browser tab).
School of Population Health Sciences
Transforming health in society by working with people, populations and data.
The School of Population Health Sciences sits within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh.
The School of Population Health Sciences is a key applied and translational arm of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh; offering significant expertise in health services research, health informatics, data science and social science. We are also the Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation Hub, part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal.
We strive for and work towards the data-enabled transformation of health.
About the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
The College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (CMVM) is home to six Schools which in turn host five world-leading research institutes; the Institute of Genetics and Cancer, the Usher Institute, the Institute for Regeneration and Repair, the Roslin Institute and the new Institute for Neurological and Cardiovascular Sciences. The teams in the six CMVM Schools work together to build outstanding discovery and translational research programmes designed to answer the major challenges facing humanity, animal and planetary health, now and in the future. Our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching is delivered through Edinburgh Medical School and the Royal (Dick) School of Medical Studies with contributions from all six schools.