General Practice Assistant

4 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Armada Family Practice Full time

**ARMADA FAMILY PRACTICE**

Armada Road, Whitchurch, BRISTOL BS14 0SU. TEL: 01275 832285

GP Partners; Dr K Jones & Dr I Da Costa & Dr J Frawley, Managing Partner Mrs J Welch

**Great opportunity to join a friendly and supportive practice.**

**Job vacancy**:
General Practice Assistant (GPA)

**Job summary**:
Armada Family Practice have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated General Practice Assistant (GPA) to join our friendly and supportive practice team.

**Main duties of the job**:
A GPA will support the GP(s) smooth running of clinics by performing the more routine administration and clinical tasks on behalf of the GP freeing up their time to focus on the patient.

**About us**:
The Armada Family Practice works from a modern purpose-built health centre with a practice population of circa 16,500 patients.

We are a friendly practice, with a large clinical and non-clinical support team. We are progressive and innovative in our approach to general practice and are happy to discuss new ways of working. Our vision is to achieve excellent patient care, led with compassion and a patient-centred approach.

We can offer:

- A competitive salary (£22,816 to £27,596 - dependant on experience)
- NHS pension
- Annual leave entitlement of 27 days + bank holidays (pro rata)
- Full or part time hours
- Access to health and wellbeing support for staff

The practice has a diverse team of GPs, Advanced Practitioners, Practice Nurses, HCAs, Pharmacists, MSK specialist, Dementia Nurses & Health and Wellbeing coaches and is supported by a PCN mental health nurse.

We are a training and teaching practice and we host/mentor GP registrars foundation doctors and medical students.

All our appointments are booked by our experienced care navigation team who ensure that patients are booked in with the right clinicians to help the patient. They use a navigation tool called Sentiers which has been adapted to meet our needs, and our appointment system.

**Job description**:

- Sorting all clinical post and prioritising for the GP in terms of actions
- Signposting some post to others such as clinical pharmacist etc
- Extracting all information from clinical letters that needs coding and adding to notes
- Arranging appointments, referrals, tests 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 & phlebotomy
- Completing basic (non-opinion) forms
- Explaining treatment procedures to patients
- Helping the GP liaise with outside agencies e.g. getting an on call doctor on the phone to ask advice or arrange admission while the GP can continue with their consultation(s)
- Assist the practice team in the screening for and management of long-term health conditions.

**Personal specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**
- Some clinical knowledge, HCA, ECA etc.,
- Experience in health care
- Excellent communication skills
- Be willing to complete the GP Assistant Certificate qualification.
- Will take responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
- Attend all relevant annual updates
- Be aware of own professional boundaries and what to do when you have reached them.

**Desirable**
- General Practice experience
- An understanding of the practice clinical system EMIS

**Quality**
- The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice
- Alert other team members to issues of quality & risk
- Work to practice protocols
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance.
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

We look forward to hearing from you.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 20 per week

**Salary**: £22,816.00-£27,596.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- bs14 0su.: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 008

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