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The ideal candidate should possess excellent communication skills to effectively interact with a diverse range of service users, including patients, carers, and healthcare providers. A commitment to upholding professional standards and maintaining up-to-date knowledge of policies, health legislation, and quality initiatives is essential. The GP Assistant will play a vital role in enhancing patient experience and operational efficiency within the healthcare team.
Central Halifax PCN has its daily fresh challenges but also exciting opportunities. Service users have plenty of ups, downs and curveballs and we are looking for someone to help them on this journey. An opportunity to do meaningful and rewarding work that makes a real difference to our clients lives and your career. If you have excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate in writing and verbally to a wide range of providers and users of the services, including patients; carers; voluntary; social; primary and secondary care providers please go ahead and apply!
Assisting the clinicians with their hospital referrals and other administration relating to patient care.
Assisting the practice management team with ordering supplies, liaising with vaccine manufacturers, taking minutes of practice meetings.
Assisting the digital scanning team with clinical correspondence filing.
Assisting the reception team at busy times with arriving patients, booking appointments for patients, retrieving paperwork for collection. Supporting the prescription clerk team with repeat prescription requests.
Assisting the medical records team with Subject Access Requests and preparing notes/reports for clinicians to process.
Processing clinical results relating to breast screening and cervical screening and other national screening programmes.
Summarising medical records for newly registered patients (Read/Snomed codes).
Summarising basic incoming clinical correspondence.
Sorting clinical post and prioritising for GP in terms of actions. Signposting some post to others where instructed.
Extracting information from clinical letters that require coding and adding notes to as instructed by GP.
Arranging appointments referrals tests and follow up appointments for patients.
Preparing patients prior to seeing GP e.g., brief history and basic readings in readiness for GP appointment.
Dipping urine, taking blood pressure, ECGs, and phlebotomy.
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Completing basic (non-Opinion) forms and core elements of some forms for the GP to approve and sign such as insurance forms, mortgage, benefit agency forms.
Explaining treatment procedures to patients.
Helping the GP liaise with outside agencies e.g., locating on call doctor for GP to arrange patient admission.
Support the GP with immunisations/wound care.
The GPA will work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, following policy and procedures to deliver high quality patient care.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to the specific client group, mental health and community care delivery.
To comply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes in these. To maintain up to date knowledge of all relevant legislation and local policies and procedures implementing this.
To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with currently quality initiatives within the work area.
To comply with all relevant organisations policies, procedures, and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information and to be aware of any changes in these.
To comply at all times with the PGPAs Information Governance related policies. Staff are required to respect the confidentiality of information about staff, patients and PGPA business and in particular the confidentiality and security of personal identifiable information in line with the Data Protection Act. All staff is responsible for ensuring that any data created by them is timely, comprehensive, accurate, and fit for the purposes for which it is intended.
Confidentiality
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
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