GP Assistant

Job summary

Colchester Medical Practice has a fantastic opportunity for a GP assistant (GPA) to join our team on a full or part-time basis for for up to 37 hours per week. This is a 2 year fixed term contract. The GPA position is a support role, covering administrative tasks and, if appropriate, some basic clinical duties, to assist the GPs, enabling them to make the best use of consultation time.

The post-holder will form part of our multi-disciplinary, primary-care team and contribute to the smooth running of the surgery. If you are a well organised person who thrives on a busy working environment, where no two days are the same, then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Managing incoming and outgoing clinical correspondence;
• Extracting information from clinical documents that require coding;
• Arranging appointments, referrals, tests and follow-up appointments;
• Completing basic (non-opinion) forms, and core elements of some forms, for the GP to approve and sign. These might include insurance, mortgage and benefits agency forms, for example;
• Improving patient flow;
• Supporting patient experience by reiterating information from the GP;
• Assisting with practice tasks;
• Helping the GP liaise with outside agencies e.g. arranging admission;
• Supporting the prescription clerk team.

About us

Colchester Medical Practice is a well established PCN, delivering excellent care to over 40,000 patients across the city of Colchester. We have four sites (Shrub End Surgery, Castle Gardens Medical Practice, Wimpole Road Surgery and Parsons Heath Medical Practice) and a new Health and Wellbeing Hub, based at our Parsons Heath site.

We are well established with a rating of GOOD by the Care Quality Commission. As a practice we employ over 120 colleagues to provide excellent healthcare to patients across Colchester.

We offer a range of staff benefits including:

• NHS pension scheme -The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefits scheme which includes: Life insurance, Family benefits including an adult dependents pension and children's pension, Ill health benefits and 20% employer contribution
• Proper Pay - Living Wage Foundation Accredited
• Eye-care vouchers
• Health service discounts.
• Annual leave: minimum 33 days FTE.
• Enhanced maternity & paternity terms
• Uniform provided for colleagues if required
• Free use of Holly Health Mental Wellbeing App.
• Flexible working contracts available upon request.
• Excellent training opportunities and progression provided.