General Practice Assistant Trainee

5 days ago

Cranbrook, United Kingdom The Old School Surgery Full time

**Job Overview**

The role of the General Practice Assistant Trainee (GPAT) 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 GPAT will be required to complete a six to nine month practice course, delivered in practice by a named GP mentor.

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)

Trainees will be expected to dedicate one day a week for study. A half day working with their

GP mentor and the rest studying competencies on the online training portal.

Upon completion of all five domains, the GPA will be awarded with a certificate ‘GP Assistant

Skills Certificate’ which is equivalent to 10 credits at a Level 4. More information about

qualification levels

Main duties:
**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
- Support the GP with immunisations and wound care
- Sterilising equipment
- Restocking consulting rooms
- Take blood samples
- Lead on health promotion and education work

**Requirements**:

- A-C GCSE or Equivalent in English, Maths and Science
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks effectively.
- Strong administrative skills with attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills
- Demonstrated phone etiquette and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
- Competence in using computerised systems for office management, Microsoft and other platforms.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £23,400.00-£35,301.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Free flu jabs
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (required)

**Experience**:

- Customer service: 1 year (preferred)
- Administrative experience: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: General Practice Assistant Trainee
Expected start date: 09/12/2024

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