GP Assistant

Job summary

The Knares Medical Practice has a fantastic opportunity for a GP assistant (GPA) to join our team on a part-time basis for 30 hours per week. The GPA position is a support role, covering administrative tasks and, if appropriate, some basic clinical duties, to assist the GPs, enabling them to make the best use of consultation time.

The post-holder will form part of our multi-disciplinary, primary-care team and contribute to the smooth running of the surgery. 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.

Main duties of the job

• 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. These might include insurance, mortgage and benefits agency forms, for example.
• 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.
• Supporting the prescription clerk team.

About us

The Knares Medical Practice in Basildon is part of the West Basildon Primary Care Network (PCN). The doctors and staff at the surgery are proud to offer the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare.

We run many clinics for the management of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical services including antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinations and well-person check-ups.