About this role
Job summary
Lakeside Healthcare is looking for a motivated and organised General Practice Assistant (GPA) to join our Corby team, a member of Rockingham Forest PCN.
This varied role combines clinical and administrative responsibilities, supporting GPs and other healthcare professionals with patient care, medication reviews, clinical observations, blood tests, care coordination, and practice administration. Working at the heart of the multidisciplinary team, you will help ensure patients receive timely, safe, and effective care while improving the efficiency of clinical services.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in primary care who enjoys working directly with patients, has strong organisational skills and is committed to delivering a patient-centred approach to healthcare. Training and development opportunities will be available, including support towards the General Practice Assistant qualification where required.
Salary range advertised is pro-rata for 30 hours per week.
Please note that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants will be required to demonstrate their right to work in the UK at interview.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will help improve patient access, support proactive care, and ensure clinicians have the information they need to deliver high-quality care efficiently.
You will
- Support GPs, nurses and other healthcare professionals with a range of clinical and administrative tasks.
- Undertake phlebotomy (blood testing) and support treatment room activities within your level of competency and training.
- Prepare patients for consultations by undertaking baseline observations and assessments, including blood pressure monitoring, height and weight measurements, ECGs, and other agreed clinical observations.
- Support medication review clinics by ensuring patients have completed the required monitoring and investigations before their appointments.
- Assist with long-term condition management programmes through patient recall, monitoring and follow-up activities.
- Support Learning Disability annual health checks through information gathering and basic clinical observations.
- Contribute to NHS Health Checks, health promotion activities and wellbeing conversations, including supporting patients to access relevant services and local support.
For more details please see the job description attached.
About us
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous, and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire. Joining our team presents an opportunity to be part of a large organisation that is changing the way primary care is delivered today.
Our values
Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.
Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate, and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders, and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve.
Rockingham Forest PCN is a large, forward-thinking Primary Care Network compromising three practices across Corby, Kettering and Oundle
This role is based in Corby, and may require travel across branch sites of the practice.
We recognise the value that this role can bring to our practices and our patients, and we look forward to growing our PCN team. Our aim is to provide exemplary patient care, finding innovative solutions in general practice to deliver the best care we can to our patients. For more information on primary care networks please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/primary-care/primary-care-networks/
Job description
Job responsibilities
The General Practice Assistant (GPA) will provide clinical and administrative support to practices across Lakeside Healthcare, helping to improve patient access, increase capacity for long-term condition management and preventative care, and make more effective use of clinical time.
For a full job description please see documents attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE level in Maths/English, grade C or above.
Desirable
- General Practice Assistant Certificate, or willingness to work towards this.
- Qualified in Phlebotomy, ECG, Patient Health Checks, Blood Pressure Measuring
- Basic First Aid knowledge
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of administration work.
- Demonstrable experience of working in a public facing role.
- 1 years experience working within primary care.
- Experience of working with clinical system, data base or patient records systems.
- Experience of working effectively in a team environment.
Desirable
- Experience of working with SystmOne clinical system.
- Experience of data entry and coding.
- Sound knowledge of medical terminology.
- Experience of working with patient centred care plans.
- Experience in common examination procedures; BP, pulse, peak flow, ECG, UTI tests etc.
- Phlebotomy qualification and recent practical experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Lakeside Healthcare Group
Address
Cottingham Road
Corby
Northamptonshire
NN17 2UR
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.lakesidehealthcaregroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)