Cestria Health Centre has a fantastic opportunity for a GP assistant (GPA) to join our team. The GPA position is a support role, covering administrative tasks and, if appropriate, some basic clinical duties, to assist the GPs, enabling them to make the best use of consultation time. The post-holder will form part of our multi-disciplinary, primary-care team and contribute to the smooth running of the surgery.
Responsibilities
* Manage incoming and outgoing communications (emails, documents, tasks)
* Help with appointment booking, patient queries and care navigation
* Explaining treatment procedures to patients including arranging follow up appointments
* Arrange weekly practice meetings, including preparation of lists, creating teams links and taking minutes
* Managing GPSI referrals, including scanning, registration of patients and organizing triage, prior to appointment booking
* Weekly extraction of information from GPSI clinics to prepare datasets for submission
* Completing basic (non-opinion) forms for the GP to approve and sign including, but not limited to, insurance, mortgage and Department for Work and Pensions forms
* Lead on health promotion and education work
* Take and record observations such as blood pressure, pulse, temperature
* Perform ECGs, Urinalysis, and phlebotomy (if trained)
About us
We are a friendly, long established and CQC Outstanding GP surgery recently joined with Coxhoe Medical Practice. We need to expand our team due to growing list size and GPSI service expansion.
We are looking for an enthusiastic team player to join our team at Cestria Health Centre.
We have an excellent GP and Nursing Team and a supportive and efficient administrative team
SystmOne Clinical System
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GCSE/NVQ level 2 or equivalent; or detailed patient services knowledge
* Qualified to NVQ level 3
Experience
* IT confident.
* Must have customer/patient care skills and have worked in a customer/patient facing environment.
* Competence in Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel).
* Ability to compile and analyse statistical information.
* Experience of working with clinical systems i.e. Systm1 would be desirable.
* Experience working in primary care
* Experience of working in a public sector/healthcare environment would be extremely advantageous.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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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