GP Assistant

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Role:

As part of the wider team in general practice, GP Assistants provide a support role, carrying out administrative tasks, combined in some areas with basic clinical duties. They help to support GPs and contribute to the smooth running of appointments, improving patients experience in the surgery. The focus of the role is on supporting General Practitioners in their day-to-day management of patients, specifically aimed at reducing the administrative burden, making best use of consultation time and supporting access to appointments

Key Duties and responsibilities:

• Supporting the administrative role of the GP in any way the GP deems appropriate, including the below but not limited to this list.
• Complete and send pathology requests.
• Review GP list to see if patients appropriately booked, or could be signposted to another service.
• Preparing patients going into see GP/Clinician with basic history and basic observations if relevant.
• Dipping urine, taking blood pressure, ECGs & phlebotomy
• Chase up information from 3rd parties that relate to presenting patients.
• Access GP Browser and other 3rd party systems to support care and navigation of patients.
• Support GPs to find service information and contact details including ensuring practice resources are updated.

• Completing basic (non-opinion) forms and core elements of some forms for GPs to approve and sign-off such as insurance forms, mortgage forms, benefits agency forms etc.
• Prepare patient details for practice meetings including reviewing cases for presentation.
• Undertake chaperoning duties.
• Sorting all clinical post and prioritising for the GP in terms of actions. Signposting some post to others such as clinical pharmacist etc.
• Extracting all information from clinical letters that needs coding and adding to notes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Have completed or working towards completing the GP assistant framework
• Minimum of 2 years experience as an HCA or in another clinical healthcare role
• GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within a healthcare setting

Desirable

• Experience of working in a 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

Ridge Green Medical Centre

Address

Ridge Green Medical Centre

Ramleaze Drive

Swindon

Wiltshire

SN5 5PX

Employer's website

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