Forrest Medical Centre

Patient Advisor

The closing date is 18 June 2025

Job summary

We are looking for a new Patient Advisor to work within our busy GP Surgery. This is a part time position for 26.5 hours per week. Working days will be Monday, 8.30- 6.00 Tuesday, 8.30 - 6.30 and Friday 8.30 - 6.30

We will be interviewing w/c 23rd June 2025

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job / job description -

Deal with patient enquiries, on the phone and face to face, making appointments as necessary

Signpost calls to various internal/external roles within the PCN, be confident in your ability to signpost (with appropriate training)

Carry out requests for repeat prescriptions.

Complete the appropriate paperwork for all new patient registrations ensuring that all information is clear and accurate to prevent delays in registering.

Follow the procedures for opening and closing the surgery.

Assist with tasks such as assigning electronic results to GPs, monitoring them and actioning any requests made by the GPs within appropriate timescales.

Check the Surgery email on a regular basis to ensure any requests are quickly picked up and actioned accordingly.

Incoming post to be opened and scanned/filed into patient computer records using the DOCMAN system.

Register patients for on-line appointment bookings.

To undertake any other tasks/duties as determined by the Doctors or Practice Manager in accordance with this grade of post.

This job description is an outline only and may be amended from time to time to take account of changing circumstances in the surgery, following discussion with the post holder.

About us

We have a friendly team at Forrest Medical Centre whom are all committed to providing a high standard of service and clinical care to our patients. We have approx. 13,000 patients registered currently and are a high achieving QOF practice. We are proud of our GMST Training status and actively encourage learning throughout both our non-clinical and clinical team members. We are a well-established, forward thinking, dynamic team with an excellent reputation locally and we enjoy the luxury of our purpose built facilities within our surgery in Canley. We are part of the Go West PCN with 5 other surgeries in the area. More information about us can be found on our website (www.fmcgp.co.uk) PLEASE NOTE - IF YOU ARE A PATIENT OF FORREST MEDICAL CENTRE AND ARE SUCCESSFUL WITH THE ROLE, YOU WILL NEED TO FIND ANOTHER SURGERY TO BE REGISTERED AT.

Details

Date posted

06 June 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.55 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A0916-25-0003

Job locations

6 Prior Deram Walk

Coventry

CV4 8FT


Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties of the job / job description -

  • Deal with patient enquiries, on the phone and face to face, making appointments as necessary
  • Carry out requests for repeat prescriptions.
  • Complete the appropriate paperwork for all new patient registrations ensuring that all information is clear and accurate to prevent delays in registering.
  • Signpost calls to various internal/external roles within the PCN, be confident in your ability to signpost (with appropriate training)
  • Follow the procedures for opening and closing the surgery.
  • Assist with tasks such as assigning electronic results to GPs, monitoring them and actioning any requests made by the GPs within appropriate timescales.
  • Check the Surgery email on a regular basis to ensure any requests are quickly picked up and actioned accordingly.
  • Incoming post to be opened and scanned/filed into patient computer records using the DOCMAN system.
  • Register patients for on-line appointment bookings.
  • To undertake any other tasks/duties as determined by the Doctors or Practice Manager in accordance with this grade of post.

This job description is an outline only and may be amended from time to time to take account of changing circumstances in the surgery, following discussion with the post holder.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties of the job / job description -

  • Deal with patient enquiries, on the phone and face to face, making appointments as necessary
  • Carry out requests for repeat prescriptions.
  • Complete the appropriate paperwork for all new patient registrations ensuring that all information is clear and accurate to prevent delays in registering.
  • Signpost calls to various internal/external roles within the PCN, be confident in your ability to signpost (with appropriate training)
  • Follow the procedures for opening and closing the surgery.
  • Assist with tasks such as assigning electronic results to GPs, monitoring them and actioning any requests made by the GPs within appropriate timescales.
  • Check the Surgery email on a regular basis to ensure any requests are quickly picked up and actioned accordingly.
  • Incoming post to be opened and scanned/filed into patient computer records using the DOCMAN system.
  • Register patients for on-line appointment bookings.
  • To undertake any other tasks/duties as determined by the Doctors or Practice Manager in accordance with this grade of post.

This job description is an outline only and may be amended from time to time to take account of changing circumstances in the surgery, following discussion with the post holder.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Customer Service
  • GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
  • Admin Experience
  • Good IT skills

Desirable

  • Previous Primary Care Experience
  • NHS Experience
  • Confident in use of Emis and Docman
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Customer Service
  • GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
  • Admin Experience
  • Good IT skills

Desirable

  • Previous Primary Care Experience
  • NHS Experience
  • Confident in use of Emis and Docman

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

Forrest Medical Centre

Address

6 Prior Deram Walk

Coventry

CV4 8FT


Employer's website

https://www.fmcgp.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Forrest Medical Centre

Address

6 Prior Deram Walk

Coventry

CV4 8FT


Employer's website

https://www.fmcgp.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Operations Manager

Morag Tidman

morag.tidman@nhs.net

02476672277

Details

Date posted

06 June 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.55 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A0916-25-0003

Job locations

6 Prior Deram Walk

Coventry

CV4 8FT


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