Job summary

This is an exiting opportunity for a General Practitioner to join our clinical team.

Crawcrook Medical Centre is a growing Practice of 20,500 patients. We have well managed branch surgeries at Rowlands Gill Medical Centre, Grange Road Medical Practice, and Blaydon GP Led Practice.

Our clinical team have bi-weekly clinical meetings and meet regularly during coffee breaks to support each other.

We have excellent support from a wider team including physios, counsellors adult and children, health and well-being coach, care navigators, community link workers. As well as document management team who process all incoming letters supported by Medicine Management Team who action any medication request and deal with queries.

Our sessional rate is based on full time hours over 4 days.

Job summary

Each session includes the following:

• 14 face to face 15 min appointments and completion of related clinical administration.
• Fair share of visits when required (normally completed by Nurse Practitioners)
• Fair share of bloods, tasks and medical reports (part-completed by non-clinical staff)
• Assisting completion of the urgent clinical task group and routine clinical task group.
• Other reasonable duties as required

Main duties of the job

• Provide high quality patient care
• Provide face to face and telephone consultations as required
• Effectively utilise in house and external services when needed
• Complete all clinical administration work related to patients seen
• Work collaboratively and contribute to the management and completion of general clinical administration, including bloods, tasks, urgent enquiries, medical reports, for example
• Attend and contribute to clinical practice meetings as required
• Ensure that each patient encounter is maximised to attain contractual target requirements

About us

The Fuller and Forbes Partnership is a primary care provider with practices currently in Leeds, Burnley, Gateshead and Devon.

The organisation provides care to 56,000 patients using a diversified clinical team consisting of on-the-ground paramedics, ANPs, ACPs, Clinical Pharmacists, and a nursing team, with clinical supervision and mentorship by GPs.

The organisation is patient-driven and has used patient feedback in the past to develop innovative services such as a bespoke smart phone app, patient-centred practice websites, joint working with the third sector and a bespoke e-consultation service. The econsultation service is accessible through both the smart phone app and website and has provided over 33,000 e-consultations in the last 2 years. The organisation currently receives around 70-100 econsults per day across all sites.

Job summary

We are a very busy and friendly 12 doctor practice at The Gill Medical Centre in Walkden and we wish to recruit a full time experienced medical secretary/data inputter

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, well-organised and hard-working individual to provide full secretarial and administration support for our practice and to update and maintain information on our patient records and systems.

To provide a professional and effective secretarial and reception service to our practice population to ensure complete satisfaction with patients practice experience

Main duties of the job

Typing of referral letters and general correspondence

Using e-referral system

Keeping referral templates and forms within the clinical system up to date

Scanning referral letters on to patients records if required

Liaising with the hospitals and secondary care about patient appointment and test result queries.

Dealing with queries raised by Doctors, Practice Manager, and Patients.

Photocopying of medical records when requested by insurance companies, solicitors or Doctors.

To provide holiday and sickness cover for secretarial colleague.

To attend and minute meetings as requested

Entering of test results and sending letters to patients who require appointments etc.

General secretarial and administrative duties for the GPs and Practice Manager

Reception duties

Attending to the reception desk

Receiving patients

Making appointments

Answering the telephone

Dealing with the daily post

Dealing with practice tasks and contacting patients as required

Receiving samples from patients

Filing

Receiving visitors into the surgery

Photocopying medical records for third parties

Registering patients

Scanning hospital and patient letters into patient notes

Ensure all practice protocols are understood and adhered to.

Assist with and minimise potential issues that may lead to complaints

About us

We work with an exceptional team of people including 12 GPs, a pharmacy and prescription team for medication and prescribing support, and highly skilled nursing and admin teams

We are a friendly bunch that work closely and achieve great things together. Staff wellbeing features highly for our staff and we have annual wellbeing events, which include yoga, sound baths, and we have regular social events with our work family.

We are situated 8 miles to Manchester City Centre, where you can enjoy fine dining, excellent museums, and plenty of great shopping.