GP Assistant

Job summary

"This job is Mainly for Medical Records Summarising & Scanning"

The GP Assistant will support the practice team by accurately summarising patient medical records and scanning all relevant documents into the clinical system, ensuring records are complete, accurate, and coded in line with NHS standards. This role helps maintain high-quality patient data and frees up GP time to focus on clinical care by working closely with practice teams and the wider PCN to ensure services are delivered efficiently and experiences are improved. Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

• Read and interpret incoming patient records (e.g., paper notes, hospital letters, discharge summaries).
• Accurately summarise medical histories into the clinical system (EMIS/SystmOne) using appropriate Read Codes or SNOMED codes.
• Ensure all relevant clinical information is captured and recorded in the correct format.
• Scan paper documents into the clinical system, attaching them to the correct patient record.
• Apply accurate coding and filing to ensure easy retrieval and compliance with data quality standards.
• Check that all scanned documents are legible and filed in the correct section of the patient record.

About us

We are a Primary Care Network (PCN) of five practices working together with a range of local providers, including primary care, community services, social care, and the voluntary sector, to offer more personalized, coordinated health and social care to their local populations.

Our PCN comprises of 35k+ patients over the five practices, making us large enough to provide resilience and support the development of integrated teams.

Link to our Website: https://ruralwarwickshirenorthpcn.nhs.uk/

The aims of a networks are to:

• Protect, improve, and extend local General Practice through greater organisational scale to provide convenient high quality, comprehensive and integrated services.
• Enhance the skills and flexibility of the General Practice workforce to meet population and service needs with programmes of continuing professional development.
• Work and collaborate with others to innovate in service provision, building on new technologies and recognising lifestyle choices of service users in the way in which they wish to access care.
• Ensure that all we do is valuable, both for the taxpayer and service user and for those investing their time and money into the PCN.
• Operate ethically, with accountability, probity, and fairness at the heart of the organisation.