General Practice Assistant; Gpa)

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)

• 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

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.

• 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

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.