ARRS GP Assistant

Job summary

Cromer Group Practice has a fantastic opportunity for a ARRS GP assistant (GPA) to join our team on a part-time basis for 20 hours per week. The GPA position is an important 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 operational forms, and core elements of some forms, for the GP to approve and sign.
• 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

We are a supportive forward thinking GP training practice with a happy reliable workforce, providing care to approximately 12,500 patients. We have a strong emphasis on high quality patient care, education and personal development. We are made up of four GP partners, three salaried GP's, a practice nursing team of five nurses and two nurse practitioner's. We are a hybrid practice with a pharmacy attached to the surgery.