Job summary

he 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.