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Hilltops Medical Centre

Scanner

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Job summary

A fantastic opportunity to join a high performing GP surgery, looking to welcome a Scanner to the team.

We are seeking someone to work 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Salary and Benefits

  • £10.83 per hour
  • An excellent NHS pension scheme
  • 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
  • NHS Discounts with a massive number of retailers (with a Bluelight card)
  • Wellbeing resources available free to all staff

Main duties of the job

Job Summary

Your key responsibilities will include reading patient correspondence, identifying relevant clinical information and updating patient notes.

You will also be carrying out administrative tasks relating to patient records, including filing, document management and ensuring patients can access reports and prescriptions, and that they are easily accessible.

About us

Hilltops Medical Centre was founded in 1983, we are an established training practice of 16,000 patients.

Our practice is approved to train fully qualified doctors who wish to specialise in general practice, we are also approved to train medical students who spend up to six weeks with us seeing patients along with their mentor.

We are part of the Watling Street Network (PCN) and have a community team including nurses, social prescribers and social work assistant supporting our patient populations.

We strive to provide high quality, readily accessible medical and preventative health care within a well organised, efficient, up-to-date, friendly and caring environment.

Details

Date posted

29 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£10.83 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A0834-23-0006

Job locations

Kensington Drive

Great Holm

Milton Keynes

MK8 9HN


Job description

Job responsibilities

Scanning Duties

  • Sort and date stamp all incoming patient-related mail.
  • Scan patient-related documents onto their medical record using read codes as agreed by the clinical team
  • Add any additional information about the source of the document
  • Forward the document to the doctor or nurse who initiated the referral or who is most appropriate to receive the information
  • Ensure incoming letters are scanned onto the patient record
  • Scan all internal paper documents on to the relevant patients record and then store the documents in line with surgery procedures.

Coding Duties

  • Identify relevant clinical information contained in patient correspondence
  • Code or free text the clinical information on to the patient record
  • Deal with queries relating to coding

Other Duties

  • Covering prescriptions
  • Any other duties deemed necessary by the doctors or Practice management team

Job description

Job responsibilities

Scanning Duties

  • Sort and date stamp all incoming patient-related mail.
  • Scan patient-related documents onto their medical record using read codes as agreed by the clinical team
  • Add any additional information about the source of the document
  • Forward the document to the doctor or nurse who initiated the referral or who is most appropriate to receive the information
  • Ensure incoming letters are scanned onto the patient record
  • Scan all internal paper documents on to the relevant patients record and then store the documents in line with surgery procedures.

Coding Duties

  • Identify relevant clinical information contained in patient correspondence
  • Code or free text the clinical information on to the patient record
  • Deal with queries relating to coding

Other Duties

  • Covering prescriptions
  • Any other duties deemed necessary by the doctors or Practice management team

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • This role is suitable for someone with strong literacy and computer skills.

Desirable

  • Experience of clinical IT systems would be an advantage.
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • This role is suitable for someone with strong literacy and computer skills.

Desirable

  • Experience of clinical IT systems would be an advantage.

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

Hilltops Medical Centre

Address

Kensington Drive

Great Holm

Milton Keynes

MK8 9HN


Employer's website

https://www.hilltopsmedicalcentre.org (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Hilltops Medical Centre

Address

Kensington Drive

Great Holm

Milton Keynes

MK8 9HN


Employer's website

https://www.hilltopsmedicalcentre.org (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Coordinator

Jacobi Maro

blmkicb.watlingstreetpcn.hr@nhs.net

01908578371

Details

Date posted

29 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£10.83 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A0834-23-0006

Job locations

Kensington Drive

Great Holm

Milton Keynes

MK8 9HN


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