Job summary

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.

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
• 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 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.