The Market Surgery

Primary Care Administrator

The closing date is 23 November 2025

Job summary

Job Title: Administrator

Responsible to: Admin Lead

Pay: £12.50 - £13.33 Dependent on experience

Hours: 30 hours per week over 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)

Contract Duration:

To provide comprehensive administrative and business support to the Practice team, ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the office, including managing supplies, equipment, and other resources. You will handle a variety of tasks, including

maintaining accurate patient records, processing information, and ensuring data is up-to-date and readily accessible. You will support patient care by managing patient recalls, data processing, emails, online queries, referrals, and other patient-related tasks. You will contribute to the practice's quality and performance by monitoring data, supporting quality initiatives, and ensuring compliance with relevant guidelines whilst undertaking tasks like preparing reports, managing patient waiting lists, and supporting the practice's QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework) strategy.

Main duties of the job

Culling and sorting patient records and letters in preparation for summarising and/or digitalising

Reviewing medical records and producing an accurate summary of the patients medical history.

Process incoming documentation to the practice in all formats

Summarising information into the practice clinical system using appropriate Read Codes (Snomed)

Auditing data collection standards in the practice

Filing and retrieving paperwork

Accurate and efficient organising and filing of paper medical records, ensuring that records are available in the instances of urgent consultation

Complete patient referrals for further care by either using ERS or the process identified on the practice SOP

Ensure appropriate clinical action is taken on the recommendation/request of other care providers e.g. Hospitals

Ensure that Recall systems are well maintained and that patients are invited for review in line with practice recall systems via appropriate methods

To support the practice in achieving exceptional standards against the Quality and Outcomes Framework

To ensure that patients medical records are clearly structured and organised

To process Subject Access Requests within required timeframes ensuring appropriate information is redacted

Invoicing and ensuring payments for Non-NHS administrative work

To take minutes or practice meetings

Ensure that safeguarding information is escalate to the appropriate persons

About us

Market Surgery is delighted to be advertising for a Primary Care Administrator to join our practice. We are a modern forward thinking practice based in Wath-Upon-Dearne, Rotherham. Our practice benefits from excellent transport links and is easily accessible from the surrounding areas of Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster and Sheffield. Our clinical system is TPP SystmOne.

We provide excellent care to 12,500 local residents from our modern purpose built premises. We consistently achieve 98%+ in our QOF, 95% positive feedback in Friends and Family Tests, and our patient satisfaction scores are above CCG and National averages in every respect

Staffing is considered our biggest asset and we offer our staff what we believe to be an extremely competitive package in reflection of their hard work. We believe that staff working in Primary care should receive the same Terms and Conditions as our colleagues in Secondary Care. As such Market Surgery is committed to following the Agenda for Change terms and conditions. This means you will receive a competitivemarketsalary, annual leave entitlement, maternity/paternity cover and much more.

Please note that due to practice policy, if you are currently a registered patient of Market Surgery, upon successful appointment to the role, you will be required to register yourself and your immediate family, with an alternative GP practice.

Details

Date posted

05 November 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.50 to £13.33 a year Dependent on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A1153-25-0014

Job locations

Warehouse Lane

Wath Upon Dearne

Rotherham

South Yorkshire

S63 7RA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Culling and sorting patient records and letters in preparation for summarising and/or digitalising

Reviewing medical records and producing an accurate summary of the patients medical history.

Process incoming documentation to the practice in all formats

Summarising information into the practice clinical system using appropriate Read Codes (Snomed)

Auditing data collection standards in the practice

Filing and retrieving paperwork

Accurate and efficient organising and filing of paper medical records, ensuring that records are available in the instances of urgent consultation

Ensure correspondence, reports, results etc. are stored/ filed in correct records

Ensure paper records are kept neat and tidy with patient information

Complete patient referrals for further care by either using ERS or the process identified on the practice SOP

Ensure appropriate clinical action is taken on the recommendation/request of other care providers e.g. Hospitals

Ensure that Recall systems are well maintained and that patients are invited for review in line with practice recall systems via appropriate methods

To support the practice in achieving exceptional standards against the Quality and Outcomes Framework

To ensure that patients medical records are clearly structured and organised

o Problems

o Summary Care Record

o Vaccinations and Immunisations

To process Subject Access Requests within required timeframes ensuring appropriate information is redacted

Invoicing and ensuring payments for Non-NHS administrative work

To take minutes or practice meetings

Ensure that safeguarding information is escalate to the appropriate persons

Job description

Job responsibilities

Culling and sorting patient records and letters in preparation for summarising and/or digitalising

Reviewing medical records and producing an accurate summary of the patients medical history.

Process incoming documentation to the practice in all formats

Summarising information into the practice clinical system using appropriate Read Codes (Snomed)

Auditing data collection standards in the practice

Filing and retrieving paperwork

Accurate and efficient organising and filing of paper medical records, ensuring that records are available in the instances of urgent consultation

Ensure correspondence, reports, results etc. are stored/ filed in correct records

Ensure paper records are kept neat and tidy with patient information

Complete patient referrals for further care by either using ERS or the process identified on the practice SOP

Ensure appropriate clinical action is taken on the recommendation/request of other care providers e.g. Hospitals

Ensure that Recall systems are well maintained and that patients are invited for review in line with practice recall systems via appropriate methods

To support the practice in achieving exceptional standards against the Quality and Outcomes Framework

To ensure that patients medical records are clearly structured and organised

o Problems

o Summary Care Record

o Vaccinations and Immunisations

To process Subject Access Requests within required timeframes ensuring appropriate information is redacted

Invoicing and ensuring payments for Non-NHS administrative work

To take minutes or practice meetings

Ensure that safeguarding information is escalate to the appropriate persons

Person Specification

Qualifications

Desirable

  • Medical Terminology (AMSPAR Level 2 or 3)
  • (It is expected that candidates without these essential qualifications will undertake training and assessment prior to successful completion of their probationary period)

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Proven communication and interpersonal skills
  • Self-directed practitioner
  • Highly motivated
  • Flexibility
  • Enthusiasm
  • Team player
  • Organised and reliable

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • IT literate (including all Microsoft packages)
  • Good standard of education
  • (maths and English GCSE or equivalent)
  • Articulate and excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
  • Accuracy in typing
  • Speed in reading and typing documents
  • Independently working without supervision

Desirable

  • SystmOne user trained
  • Redaction of medical records
  • Production of Subject Access Requests

Experience

Essential

  • Proficient in dealing with patients/customers over the phone
  • Liaising with different stakeholders
  • Working to deadlines
  • Experience supporting QOF delivery
  • Summarising medical records
  • Coding medical records
  • Worked in a medical environment

Desirable

  • Experience of SystmOne
  • Involvement in audits or service development
  • Minimum 1 year experience in General Practice or Primary Care
Person Specification

Qualifications

Desirable

  • Medical Terminology (AMSPAR Level 2 or 3)
  • (It is expected that candidates without these essential qualifications will undertake training and assessment prior to successful completion of their probationary period)

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Proven communication and interpersonal skills
  • Self-directed practitioner
  • Highly motivated
  • Flexibility
  • Enthusiasm
  • Team player
  • Organised and reliable

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • IT literate (including all Microsoft packages)
  • Good standard of education
  • (maths and English GCSE or equivalent)
  • Articulate and excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
  • Accuracy in typing
  • Speed in reading and typing documents
  • Independently working without supervision

Desirable

  • SystmOne user trained
  • Redaction of medical records
  • Production of Subject Access Requests

Experience

Essential

  • Proficient in dealing with patients/customers over the phone
  • Liaising with different stakeholders
  • Working to deadlines
  • Experience supporting QOF delivery
  • Summarising medical records
  • Coding medical records
  • Worked in a medical environment

Desirable

  • Experience of SystmOne
  • Involvement in audits or service development
  • Minimum 1 year experience in General Practice or Primary Care

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

The Market Surgery

Address

Warehouse Lane

Wath Upon Dearne

Rotherham

South Yorkshire

S63 7RA


Employer's website

https://www.marketsurgerywath.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

The Market Surgery

Address

Warehouse Lane

Wath Upon Dearne

Rotherham

South Yorkshire

S63 7RA


Employer's website

https://www.marketsurgerywath.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Admin Lead

Kay Attenborough

kay.attenborough@nhs.net

01709870150

Details

Date posted

05 November 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.50 to £13.33 a year Dependent on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A1153-25-0014

Job locations

Warehouse Lane

Wath Upon Dearne

Rotherham

South Yorkshire

S63 7RA


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