Job summary
The role of the General Practice Assistant (GPA) is to support the GP Surgery with routine administration tasks working as a personal assistant to the GPs and basic healthcare assistant clinical duties. The GPA will be required to complete a six-to-nine-month practice course, delivered in practice by a named GP mentor. We would like some already finished this course. The framework covers five domains (two clinical and three non-clinical). Care Certificate (clinical) Clinical (clinical) Communications (non-clinical) Administration (non-clinical) Managing Health Records (non-clinical)
Main duties of the job
- Sorting all clinical post and prioritising it
- Extracting all information from clinical letters that needs coding
- Dealing with all routine clinical post directly e.g. did not attend (DNA) letters, two week wait referrals (2WW) etc.
- Arranging appointments, referrals and follow up appointments of patients
- Preparing patients prior to going in to see the GP, taking a brief history and basic readings in readiness for the GP appointment.
- Dipping urine, taking blood pressure, ECGs and phlebotomy
- Completing basic (non-opinion) forms for the GP to approve and sign including, but not limited to, insurance, mortgage and Department for Work and Pensions forms (IB113, HAAS etc)
- Explaining treatment procedures to patients including arranging follow up appointments
- Helping the GP liaise with outside agencies i.e. getting an on call doctor on the phone to ask advice or arrange admission while the GP can continue with their consultation(s)
- Support the GP with immunisations and wound care
- Sterilising equipment
- Restocking consulting rooms
- Take blood samples
- Lead on health promotion and education work
About us
Crompton Medical Centre is single handed surgery located in Edgware road and little vience/Maida Vale caring 3588 patients. The surgery is a focal point for the local community and was rated as good in out recent CQC inspection.
Job responsibilities
- Sorting all clinical post and prioritising it
- Extracting all information from clinical letters that needs coding
- Dealing with all routine clinical post directly e.g. did not attend (DNA) letters, two week wait referrals (2WW) etc.
- Arranging appointments, referrals and follow up appointments of patients
- Preparing patients prior to going in to see the GP, taking a brief history and basic readings in readiness for the GP appointment.
- Dipping urine, taking blood pressure, ECGs and phlebotomy
- Completing basic (non-opinion) forms for the GP to approve and sign including, but not limited to, insurance, mortgage and Department for Work and Pensions forms (IB113, HAAS etc)
- Explaining treatment procedures to patients including arranging follow up appointments
- Helping the GP liaise with outside agencies i.e. getting an on call doctor on the phone to ask advice or arrange admission while the GP can continue with their consultation(s)
- Support the GP with immunisations and wound care
- Urine dipstick
- Restocking consulting rooms
- Take blood samples
- Take bp and bmi check
- ECG
- Lead on health promotion and education work etc
Qualifications
Essential
- GPA course
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.
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