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GP Assistant
| Posting date: | 03 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £13.70 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £13.70 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS4 4HU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A0302-25-0005 |
Summary
The following are the core responsibilities of the GP Assistant. There may on occasion be a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels. Although not an exhaustive list, the GPA duties will include: performing venepuncture in accordance with practice protocols, obtaining patient consent for the collection of a blood sample, maintaining accurate patient records on EMIS, ensuring samples are correctly labelled, packages, stored and sent to the laboratory in a timely manner, taking blood pressures, urine analysis in accordance with practice protocols, supporting with the NHS health checks, ensuring medication reviews are arranged as per practice protocols, dealing with all prescription related enquiries in a timely manner. Record and report adverse effects accurately and appropriately. Reviewing discharge summaries and other documents with medication changes and transferring to patient medical records, ensuring accurate coding of data on EMIS, extracting all information from clinical letters that need coding and adding to notes, sorting all clinical post and prioritising for the GP in terms of actions. Signposting post to those in the wider clinical team. supporting clinicians with medical reports, liaising with outside agencies such as district nurses. keeping up to date with the practice policies and procedures, and any other duties commensurate with the role that may reasonably be requested by the Partners and the Management Team based on our evolving work streams.