General Practice Assistant inBarnsley inBarnsley PUBLISHED WED 15 JAN 2025

PERMANENT BLOOD PRESSURE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY

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Be part of a multi-disciplinary team, enhancing collaboration with healthcare professionals.

Contribute directly to improving patient access and experience in primary care settings.

Expand your clinical skills through a structured training program and formal clinical sign-off.

Engage in a variety of tasks, including patient preparation, administering basic clinical duties, and managing appointments.

Support the GP with essential procedures, such as immunizations and wound care, increasing your practical experience.

Play a vital role in streamlining administrative processes, allowing clinicians to focus more on patient care.

The General Practice Assistant (GPA) position at Barnsley Healthcare Federation involves working within a multi-disciplinary team to support clinicians in delivering high-quality patient care. Responsibilities include preparing patients for GP appointments, managing administrative tasks such as scheduling referrals and follow-ups, extracting and coding information from clinical letters, and performing basic clinical duties like taking blood pressure and urine tests. The role also requires assisting with immunisations and wound care, explaining treatment procedures to patients, and facilitating communication with external agencies.

Candidates will operate under the supervision of GPs and may need to undergo a training program if not already accredited. The organisation emphasises inclusivity and encourages applications from disabled individuals, offering interviews to those who meet the minimum criteria. As the application response may be high, the job posting could close early if sufficient candidates are found.

General Practice Assistants (GPAs) form part of a multi-disciplinary team within primary care and support the clinicians in the smooth running of the surgery by handling routine administration and some basic clinical duties enabling the clinician to focus on the patient. Ultimately the aim is to improve the patients access/experience in practice.

General Practice assistants will operate under the supervision of GPs and at times other appropriately qualified clinicians. The assistant will undertake a training programme, if not already accredited, to obtain formal clinical sign off.

We are looking for a GP Assistant to join The Grove Medical Practice, S70 1QE.

We encourage applications from disabled people. If you meet the minimum criteria for the job, as set out by the job advert, then we are committed to offering you an interview.

If you have any specific needs within the application or interview as a result of a disability, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

If we get a high number of applicants this advert could be closed earlier for interviews.

Preparing patients prior to going in to see the GP, taking a brief history and basic readings in readiness for the GP appointment.

Arranging appointments, referrals, tests and follow up appointments of patients.

Extracting all information from clinical letters that needs coding and adding to notes.

Dipping urine, taking blood pressure, ECGs & phlebotomy.

Sorting all clinical post and prioritising for the GP in terms of actions. Signposting some post to others such as clinical pharmacist etc.

Completing basic (non-opinion) forms and core elements of some forms for the GP to approve and sign such as insurance forms, mortgage, benefits agency forms etc.

Support the GP with immunisations/wound care.

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 consultations.