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Moat House Surgery

General Practice Assistant

The closing date is 24 October 2025

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Job summary

General Practice Assistant (GPA), is required to support the smooth running of clinics by performing more routine administration tasks on behalf of the GP, freeing up their time to focus on the patient.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities

  • Processing medication requests
  • Workflow of incoming documents, coding and extracting information from clinical letters to add to patient records
  • Determining whether or not letters should be forwarded to a Clinical Pharmacist or GP for actioning.
  • Arranging appointments
  • Arranging tests and follow up appointments
  • Completing basic (non-opinion) forms and core elements of some forms for the GP to approve and sign, such as insurance forms, mortgage, benefit agency forms etc.
  • Supporting with QOF reviews

About us

We are a rural practice located in Warboys with a practice list size of 7,500 patients.

Our team consists of 4 GP partners, 1 salaried GP, 2 ANPs, 5 receptionists, 3 dispensers, 1 care coordinator, 1 social prescribing link worker, 4 nurses and 3 health care assistants.

Many members of our team have been with the practice for a very long time.

Details

Date posted

10 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A4066-25-0001

Job locations

Beech Close

Warboys

Huntingdon

Cambridgeshire

PE28 2RQ


Job description

Job responsibilities

Performing routine administrative tasks to support the GPs and ANPs freeing up their time for complex patient care.

Responsibilities

  • Processing medication requests
  • Workflow of incoming documents, coding and extracting information from clinical letters to add to patient records
  • Determining whether or not letters should be forwarded to a Clinical Pharmacist or GP for actioning.
  • Arranging appointments
  • Arranging tests and follow up appointments
  • Completing basic (non-opinion) forms and core elements of some forms for the GP to approve and sign, such as insurance forms, mortgage, benefit agency forms etc.
  • Supporting with QOF reviews

Job description

Job responsibilities

Performing routine administrative tasks to support the GPs and ANPs freeing up their time for complex patient care.

Responsibilities

  • Processing medication requests
  • Workflow of incoming documents, coding and extracting information from clinical letters to add to patient records
  • Determining whether or not letters should be forwarded to a Clinical Pharmacist or GP for actioning.
  • Arranging appointments
  • Arranging tests and follow up appointments
  • Completing basic (non-opinion) forms and core elements of some forms for the GP to approve and sign, such as insurance forms, mortgage, benefit agency forms etc.
  • Supporting with QOF reviews

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Experience
  • Proven experience in a similar role within Primary Care, with at least one year's experience
  • Able to take on the responsibility and have the confidence for determining which documents can be completed without having to forward them to a Clinical Pharmacist
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, working as an effective member of the team
  • Previous knowledge of SystmOne
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Experience
  • Proven experience in a similar role within Primary Care, with at least one year's experience
  • Able to take on the responsibility and have the confidence for determining which documents can be completed without having to forward them to a Clinical Pharmacist
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, working as an effective member of the team
  • Previous knowledge of SystmOne

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Moat House Surgery

Address

Beech Close

Warboys

Huntingdon

Cambridgeshire

PE28 2RQ


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Moat House Surgery

Address

Beech Close

Warboys

Huntingdon

Cambridgeshire

PE28 2RQ


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Manager

Samantha Jones

Samantha.jones3@nhs.net

01487822230

Details

Date posted

10 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A4066-25-0001

Job locations

Beech Close

Warboys

Huntingdon

Cambridgeshire

PE28 2RQ


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