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General Practice Assistant - Admin Team

The closing date is 12 June 2025

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the employment of a general practice admin assistant to joinour established team. West Wakefield is a Primary Care Network (PCN) with a patient populationof circa 68,000 across 5 practices.

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We are looking to expand our GPA Admin team to work alongside our practices and other PCNstaff. Our PCN staff team currently includes Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, SocialPrescribers, Health and Wellbeing Coaches, Care Coordinators, Occupational Therapists, MentalHealth Nurses, General Practice Assistants (clinical), General Practitioners and First ContactPractitioners

Main duties of the job

The GPA Admin Team are responsible for coding clinical records from letters and communicationsfrom external providers. In addition to inputting clinical data. We welcome applications from bothexperienced clinical coders and those willing to learn and take on a new challenge. Training will beprovided.

The GPA Admin team plan to develop the service offer as the team expands. This is likely to include;

Scanning and matching letters to patient records

Sorting clinical post and prioritising actions for GPs and other PCN teams.

Identifying clinical actions and directing to appropriate practice and PCN teams.

Arranging Appointments, referrals, tests and follow-ups

Managing caseloads/ incoming referrals

Identifying and acting on safeguarding issues.

Clinical reporting and searches

Summarising medical records

Support the PCN and Practice with administration support as required.

This list is not exhaustive and is likely to develop with the service provision being offered.

This role requires the successful applicant to complete an enhanced DBS check

About us

We are a dynamic, forward-thinking PCN team passionate about developing and deliveringexcellent quality local services to meet the needs of our patients and reducing health inequalities.

Details

Date posted

16 May 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£24,447 to £26,870 a year pro rata for part-time staff, dependant on skills and experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A0430-25-0019

Job locations

Middlestown Medical Centre

129 New Road

Middlestown

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF4 4PA


Job description

Job responsibilities

For the full Job Description and Person Specification for this role please see the attached documents

Job description

Job responsibilities

For the full Job Description and Person Specification for this role please see the attached documents

Person Specification

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • Awareness of the PCN DES contract
  • Understanding of the importance of patient
  • confidentiality
  • Able to recognise the importance of accuracy and
  • timely input into the patient record.
  • Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and
  • in writing.
  • Ability to work as part of a diverse team.
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently.
  • Strong IT skills (Microsoft 365).
  • Effective Time Management
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Attention to detail

Desirable

  • Medical terminology
  • Anatomical terminology
  • Information Governance and Safeguarding
  • Ability to extract relevant clinical information
  • from complex letters.

Other

Essential

  • Able to meet Conexus Healthcare standards of
  • attendance.
  • Able to travel between sites and other venues within
  • an appropriate timescale as required.
  • Flexible and cooperative
  • Motivated to learn and develop new and existing
  • skills.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
  • GCSE Mathematics and English Grade C or above (or
  • equivalent)

Desirable

  • Clinical coding qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Working as part of a team

Desirable

  • Experience working in a primary care/ general
  • practice admin team.
  • Experienced Clinical Coder/summariser
  • Experience of SystmOne
  • Experience of working in a PCN.
Person Specification

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • Awareness of the PCN DES contract
  • Understanding of the importance of patient
  • confidentiality
  • Able to recognise the importance of accuracy and
  • timely input into the patient record.
  • Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and
  • in writing.
  • Ability to work as part of a diverse team.
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently.
  • Strong IT skills (Microsoft 365).
  • Effective Time Management
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Attention to detail

Desirable

  • Medical terminology
  • Anatomical terminology
  • Information Governance and Safeguarding
  • Ability to extract relevant clinical information
  • from complex letters.

Other

Essential

  • Able to meet Conexus Healthcare standards of
  • attendance.
  • Able to travel between sites and other venues within
  • an appropriate timescale as required.
  • Flexible and cooperative
  • Motivated to learn and develop new and existing
  • skills.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
  • GCSE Mathematics and English Grade C or above (or
  • equivalent)

Desirable

  • Clinical coding qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Working as part of a team

Desirable

  • Experience working in a primary care/ general
  • practice admin team.
  • Experienced Clinical Coder/summariser
  • Experience of SystmOne
  • Experience of working in a PCN.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Conexus Healthcare CIC

Address

Middlestown Medical Centre

129 New Road

Middlestown

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF4 4PA


Employer's website

https://conexus-healthcare.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Conexus Healthcare CIC

Address

Middlestown Medical Centre

129 New Road

Middlestown

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF4 4PA


Employer's website

https://conexus-healthcare.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Service Development and Operations Lead

Heather Sweeney

wyicb-wak.conexuspcnsupport@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

16 May 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£24,447 to £26,870 a year pro rata for part-time staff, dependant on skills and experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A0430-25-0019

Job locations

Middlestown Medical Centre

129 New Road

Middlestown

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF4 4PA


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