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General Practice Assistant (Admin) Team Leader

The closing date is 28 September 2025

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the employment of an experienced general practice administrator, coder and summariser to help lead a new team.

We have expanded our team by recruiting a team of GP Assistants to work alongside our practices and PCN staff. Our PCN staff team currently include clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, social prescribers, health and wellbeing coaches, care coordinators, nurse associates, occupational therapists, mental health nurses, first-contact physiotherapists.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for ensuring the team is adequately trained, and for monitoring quality and patient safety through regular audits. You will be responsible for supervising, managing and motivating team members daily.You will need to provide guidance, instruction, training. Your leadership skills will inspire the team to perform at their optimum.You will be the contact point for your team members, so your communication skills should be excellent. You should also be able to act proactively to ensure smooth team operations and provide outstanding patient care. We are looking for someone with experience and passion to develop the service offer to include other administrative tasks to support our practices in the future.

About us

West Wakefield is a PCN with a patient population of circa 68,000 across 5 practices.

Chapelthorpe Medical Centre

Middlestown Medical Centre

The Lupset Health Centre

Orchard Croft Medical Centre

Ossett Surgery

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

**Interviews for this position are scheduled to take place on Wednesday 8th October**

Details

Date posted

22 August 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£26,332 to £27,944 a year depending on experience and skills

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A0430-25-0044

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 supporting documents attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Skills and Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Highly skilled summariser and coder
  • Ability to recognise patterns and interpret data.
  • Ability to create reports and complete audits in SystmOne.
  • Strong IT skills, competent user of Microsoft 365 applications.
  • Effective time management, prioritisation and organisational skills.
  • Ability to work autonomously and with a team.
  • Ability to follow policies and procedures.
  • Patient-focused
  • Compassionate
  • Flexible and cooperative
  • Highly motivated
  • Attention to detail
  • Empathetic

Other

Essential

  • Able to meet Conexus Healthcare standards of attendance.
  • Independently mobile with a flexible approach to travel across the locality

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in general practice
  • Experience of administrative duties
  • Experience of summarising and data coding
  • Experienced SystmOne user

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a PCN
  • Experience of line management
  • Experience of Information Governance and Safeguarding.
  • Awareness of Information Governance and Safeguarding
  • Knowledge of clinical coding and summarising.
  • Knowledge of administrative tasks within general practice.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
  • GCSE Mathematics & English (C or above) or equivalent
  • NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care
  • GP Assistant certificate
  • Leadership Qualification / proven work experience

Desirable

  • Leadership Qualification
Person Specification

Skills and Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Highly skilled summariser and coder
  • Ability to recognise patterns and interpret data.
  • Ability to create reports and complete audits in SystmOne.
  • Strong IT skills, competent user of Microsoft 365 applications.
  • Effective time management, prioritisation and organisational skills.
  • Ability to work autonomously and with a team.
  • Ability to follow policies and procedures.
  • Patient-focused
  • Compassionate
  • Flexible and cooperative
  • Highly motivated
  • Attention to detail
  • Empathetic

Other

Essential

  • Able to meet Conexus Healthcare standards of attendance.
  • Independently mobile with a flexible approach to travel across the locality

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in general practice
  • Experience of administrative duties
  • Experience of summarising and data coding
  • Experienced SystmOne user

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a PCN
  • Experience of line management
  • Experience of Information Governance and Safeguarding.
  • Awareness of Information Governance and Safeguarding
  • Knowledge of clinical coding and summarising.
  • Knowledge of administrative tasks within general practice.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
  • GCSE Mathematics & English (C or above) or equivalent
  • NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care
  • GP Assistant certificate
  • Leadership Qualification / proven work experience

Desirable

  • Leadership Qualification

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

07769356258

Details

Date posted

22 August 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£26,332 to £27,944 a year depending on experience and skills

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A0430-25-0044

Job locations

Middlestown Medical Centre

129 New Road

Middlestown

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF4 4PA


Supporting documents

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