Job Description:
Receptionist
London (EC4A)
Permanent
£30,500 + fantastic benefits
Full time (40 Hours)
We make health happen:
We are seeking a dedicated individual to ensure all administrative and receptionist activities are executed efficiently and effectively. This role is vital in maintaining the smooth operation of our centre and plays a crucial part in delivering exceptional customer service. You will be a key support network, ensuring that every interaction with our customers, is special and memorable. Your commitment to outstanding service will help create positive experiences for everyone who visits us.
Working in our UK support functions, you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.
Role Overview
To ensure the effective and efficient running of a busy corporate Medical Centre Reception, maintaining excellent customer service whilst also completing administrative activities within the Centre.
You’ll help us make health happen by:
You'll contribute as a support network in providing outstanding customer service to our customers every time they touch base with us. Additional duties include;
- Front of house receptionist in a corporate medical setting
- Create/amend/cancel appointments
- Greet clients, complete arrival
- Keep reception and waiting area tidy and maintain high standard of cleanliness
- Take and process client payments and complete end of day banking
- Manage multiple inboxes, responding within the hour to client queries
- Respond to telephone calls and voicemails immediately
- Pick up tasks within the booking system on alert, and action
- Manage client files – electronic and paper (prepare for clinic, action requests and file alphabetically after clinic)
- Process referrals on receipt and follow up with clients to support booking their onward appointments
- Complaints – listen, take notes and involve centre manager or team manager appropriately
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
- Excellent communication (Written and Verbal)
- Deliver an outstanding Customer Service each and every time
- Good knowledge of excel and word
- Knowledge of Medical Terminology (desirable)
- Excellent customer service skills
- Confident approach with strong diplomacy skills
- Ability to multi-task, within a changing environment
- Proven ability to work successfully in a fast paced, time-pressured environment
- Very organised, with strong administration skills
- Flexible, with an ability to adapt approach to corporate, in-house systems
- Good IT skills including proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook and CRMs (we have a bespoke EPR system)
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills
Benefits:
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
- 25 days holiday per year, pro rata to your contract.
- Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing
- Fixed term benefits allowance
- Access to our confidential employee assistance
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Time Type:
Full timeJob Area:
AdministrationLocations:
London & South EastSkills Required
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Outstanding customer service skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
- Experience with CRM systems and bespoke EPR
- Ability to create, amend and cancel appointments and manage booking systems
- Cash handling and end-of-day banking
- Strong organisational and administrative skills
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, time-pressured environment
- Confident, diplomatic approach and strong interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of medical terminology
- Flexible and able to adapt to corporate in-house systems
Bupa Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Bupa and has not been reviewed or approved by Bupa.
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Healthcare Strength — Health cover via the UK Health Trust, day‑one medical support for frontline roles, and dedicated women’s health initiatives indicate a robust, health‑centric package. Access to digital GP, nurse lines, and options such as dental and health cash plans further reinforce medical and preventive care breadth.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs span mental, physical, emotional, and financial support, with offerings like EAP access, gym discounts, and health assessments. Flexible work and wellbeing programs highlighted in some regions add to lifestyle value.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include enhanced parental leave in certain UK business units and a family mental‑health support line. Options to extend medical coverage to dependants and family‑oriented allowances strengthen support beyond the individual.
Bupa Insights
What We Do
Bupa's purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We are an international healthcare company serving over 38 million customers worldwide. With no shareholders, we reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. We directly employ around 85,000 people, principally in the UK, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong SAR, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, the US, Middle East and Ireland. We also have associate businesses in Saudi Arabia and India. For more information, visit www.bupa.com






