Haverhill Family Practice

Lead Workflow Administrator

The closing date is 13 July 2025

Job summary

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for the role of Lead Workflow Administrator, working 25 hours per week.

In this role, you will be responsible for the smooth and efficient running of the Workflow Department. You will provide support to your team members, ensuring effective communication, task delegation, and departmental coverage at all times.

We are looking for someone who is proactive, organised, and committed to delivering excellence. Strong communication, leadership skills and close attention to detail are essential for this position.

Experience leading a team/ department is essential.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

Overseeing day-to-day workflow processes and ensuring consistent service delivery

Supporting and guiding team members as needed

Coordinating and covering team absences, including managing the holiday rota

Booking annual leave for the team

Conducting appraisals and providing feedback and development support

Liaising closely with the GP Workflow Lead to ensure the department remains up to date and aligned with clinical priorities

Maintaining high standards of accuracy, timeliness, and quality in all workflow tasks

About us

Haverhill Family Practice is a GP surgery located in the market town of Haverhill Suffolk.

We are within walking distance of the town centre and main bus station.

We are a busy but friendly practice with excellent staff retention.

We are a five partner practice with the rest of our clinical team comprising of a salaried GP, regular locum GP's, Advanced Care Practitioners (ACP's), Paramedics, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and a Pharmacy Team.

We have been a GP Training Practice since August 2022.

Our current list size is just under 20,000 patients.

Our CQC rating is Good.

Details

Date posted

01 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£14.75 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A4199-25-0002

Job locations

14 Camps Road

Haverhill

Suffolk

CB9 8HF


Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

Responsible for the smooth and efficient running of the Workflow department.

Provide support to your team members ensuring effective communication, task delegation and departmental coverage at all times.

To ensure that all incoming and internal patient correspondence is stored on/in the patients medical record and relevant information is coded.

To be able to locate documents as needed by the clinical and non-clinical staff

To carry out administrative related tasks as delegated by the doctors and non- clinical staff

Key Working Relationships

The range of individuals and organisations the post holder has contact with, how regularly and for what purpose:

  • Clinical Team - Daily, where relevant to documents scanning
  • Prescriptions Team - Daily, where relevant to documents scanning
  • Administration Team - Daily, where relevant to documents scanning

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Overseeing day-to-day workflow processes and ensuring consistent service delivery
  • Supporting and guiding team members as needed
  • Co-ordinating and covering team absences including managing the holiday rota
  • Managing annual leave for the team
  • Conducting appraisals and providing feedback and development support
  • Liaising closely with the GP Workflow Lead to ensure the department remains up-to-date and aligned with clinical priorities
  • Manitaining high standards of accuracy, timelimess and quality in all workflow tasks.
  • Take action as directed by other team members
  • Follow practice protocols to ensure consistent and high quality care is provided to our patients
  • Carry out administrative tasks relating to patient documentation.

Scanning duties

  • Sort and date stamp all incoming patient-related mail.
  • Use practice software 'Anima' to process incoming emails, checking and amending snomed codes as necessary.
  • 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 within a 48/72-hour timescale
  • Scan all internal paper documents on to the relevant patients record and then store the documents in line with surgery procedures.

Coding

  • 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

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

Responsible for the smooth and efficient running of the Workflow department.

Provide support to your team members ensuring effective communication, task delegation and departmental coverage at all times.

To ensure that all incoming and internal patient correspondence is stored on/in the patients medical record and relevant information is coded.

To be able to locate documents as needed by the clinical and non-clinical staff

To carry out administrative related tasks as delegated by the doctors and non- clinical staff

Key Working Relationships

The range of individuals and organisations the post holder has contact with, how regularly and for what purpose:

  • Clinical Team - Daily, where relevant to documents scanning
  • Prescriptions Team - Daily, where relevant to documents scanning
  • Administration Team - Daily, where relevant to documents scanning

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Overseeing day-to-day workflow processes and ensuring consistent service delivery
  • Supporting and guiding team members as needed
  • Co-ordinating and covering team absences including managing the holiday rota
  • Managing annual leave for the team
  • Conducting appraisals and providing feedback and development support
  • Liaising closely with the GP Workflow Lead to ensure the department remains up-to-date and aligned with clinical priorities
  • Manitaining high standards of accuracy, timelimess and quality in all workflow tasks.
  • Take action as directed by other team members
  • Follow practice protocols to ensure consistent and high quality care is provided to our patients
  • Carry out administrative tasks relating to patient documentation.

Scanning duties

  • Sort and date stamp all incoming patient-related mail.
  • Use practice software 'Anima' to process incoming emails, checking and amending snomed codes as necessary.
  • 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 within a 48/72-hour timescale
  • Scan all internal paper documents on to the relevant patients record and then store the documents in line with surgery procedures.

Coding

  • 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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • GSCE grade A-C in English and Maths (or equivalent)

Desirable

  • Experience working in a GP surgery or Healthcare setting.
  • Experience with use of medical terms and coding.
  • Experience with using SystmOne clinical system or similar.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in leading a team / department.
  • Computer literate.
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • Able to work alone and as part of a team.
  • Flexibility to meet service needs.

Desirable

  • Experience working in a GP surgery or Healthcare setting.
  • Experience with use of medical terms and coding.
  • Experience with using SystmOne clinical system or similar.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • GSCE grade A-C in English and Maths (or equivalent)

Desirable

  • Experience working in a GP surgery or Healthcare setting.
  • Experience with use of medical terms and coding.
  • Experience with using SystmOne clinical system or similar.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in leading a team / department.
  • Computer literate.
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • Able to work alone and as part of a team.
  • Flexibility to meet service needs.

Desirable

  • Experience working in a GP surgery or Healthcare setting.
  • Experience with use of medical terms and coding.
  • Experience with using SystmOne clinical system or similar.

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

Haverhill Family Practice

Address

14 Camps Road

Haverhill

Suffolk

CB9 8HF


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Haverhill Family Practice

Address

14 Camps Road

Haverhill

Suffolk

CB9 8HF


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Operations Manager

Rachel Mack

rachel.mack@nhs.net

01440702010

Details

Date posted

01 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£14.75 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A4199-25-0002

Job locations

14 Camps Road

Haverhill

Suffolk

CB9 8HF


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