About the Role

South Rural Primary Care Network is seeking a permanent GP assistant to be based at Bildeston Health Centre. The post is offered on a part-time basis, for up to 23 hours a week, ideally to include Mondays and Wednesdays.

The successful applicant will play a key role in supporting our GP's with a mix of administrative and clinical tasks in the community and practice including:

Managing incoming and outgoing clinical correspondence
Extracting information from clinical documents that require coding
Arranging appointments, referrals, tests and follow-up appointments
Completing basic (non-opinion) forms, and core elements of some forms, for the GP to approve and sign.
Improving patient flow
Supporting patient experience by reiterating information from the GP
Assisting with practice tasks
Helping the GP liaise with outside agencies e.g. arranging admission

About the Candidate

If you are a well organised person who thrives on a busy working environment, where no two days are the same, then we would love to hear from you.

Whilst the following skills and experience are important, we would welcome applications from people who can demonstrate strong transferable skills:

Administrative experience
Strong organisational skills
IT skills, including experience of working with a clinical system
Excellent communication skills and a friendly manner
Ability to understand the need to maintain confidentiality and data security, at all times
Ability to multi-task and to work accurately under pressure
Ability to work in a team as well as being comfortable working independently

About Us

South Rural PCN provides services to 56,000 patients across rural Suffolk and is headed by 2 proactive, supportive and committed Clinical Directors. Our PCN includes the following practices: Bildeston Health Centre, Constable Country Medical Practice (East Bergholt and Capel St Mary), Hadleigh Health Centre, The Holbrook and Shotley Surgeries and Needham Market Country Practice.

Bildeston Health Centre is a friendly, medium sized, rural dispensing practice. We are CQC rated GOOD and score very highly on the Patient Experience survey. We have a growing list size of 7100+ patients with three GP partners. We currently have 2 Practices Nurse and 2 HCAs and a very supportive care navigation and admin team.

We are active members of the South Rural PCN who provide us with a practice paramedic and clinical pharmacist.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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