This Gynaecology Clinic Assistant post sits with the Gynaecology Collaborative, a service run by Islington GP Federation that links primary, secondary and community care. The post holder supports GPs and consultants at community gynaecology clinics, handling patient arrivals and bookings, chaperoning, infection control and specimen handling. The role is site-based and needs willingness to move between clinic locations at short notice, on part-time hours. Applicants need prior health care setting experience and chaperone training or experience.
What the job involves
- Support the receptionist with patient arrivals, sign-in and rebooking patients who did not attend
- Support patients with booking, cancelling and rebooking appointments
- Assist clinicians during procedures, keeping equipment ready and rooms prepared
- Act as a chaperone when required
- Act as infection control assistant, sanitising rooms and equipment after use
- Carry out daily, quarterly and yearly IPC checks at clinical sites
- Label, record and dispatch specimens and samples taken in clinic
- Carry out safety-netting searches to track laboratory results
- Action follow-up instructions from GP consultation notes, including discharge letters, referrals and chasing results
- Confirm patient appointments for the current and following week as instructed
- Complete weekly checks on emergency medicines and equipment at clinic locations
- Support stock management, including stock-taking, monitoring levels and ordering supplies
What’s required
Qualifications
- Good general education
Experience
- Experience within a health care setting
Skills & knowledge
- Chaperone training certificate or experience
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Good team working skills
- Effective time management
- Computer literate
Other
- Works across multiple community sites, sometimes at short notice
- Strict adherence to patient confidentiality
- Works on own initiative and independently from verbal or written instructions
- Remains calm and works well under pressure
- Flexible and adaptable, including to change
- Provides quality care; aware of own limitations; keen to develop
Nice to have
- Knowledge of EMIS and Docman clinical systems
- Basic first aid knowledge
- Health and safety awareness
- Awareness of blood borne viruses
- Qualified to NVQ level 3
- Holds a Care Certificate
- Experience in GP practice
- Flexible approach to working hours, location and duties
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
