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Wearside Medical Practice: Temporary Coder Vacancy

Wearside Medical Practice

Pallion Health Centre

Hylton Road

Sunderland

SR4 7XF

 

Job summary

Wearside Medical Practice has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Coder / Administrator to join the team to cover for sickness.

The duties will include:

  • Answering the telephones and face to face interaction with patients

  • Supporting clinical staff with searches and audits

  • Dealing with patient queries and daily tasks from clinical team

  • Scanning and Snowmed coding patient correspondence into patient records

  • Monitoring practice email account

  • Supporting clinical staff in all clinical procedures and maintain patient registers including safeguarding, palliative care, frailty etc

  • Booking of appointments, dealing with prescription requests

  • Taking minutes of meetings

Main duties of the job

·      Excellent interpersonal skills

·      Experience working in primary care is essential

·      Good knowledge of Emis Web

·      Good knowledge of medical terminology

·      Excellent attention to detail

·      Works calmly and methodically under pressure

·      Treats patients and colleagues with dignity, respect and equality

·      Flexible, reliable and responsive to change

·      Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines

·      Uses initiative and common sense when appropriate

·      Extremely well organised, methodical and structured when working

·      Excellent communicator

·      Shows diplomacy, fairness and empathy with patients and colleagues

Overview of your organisation

·      Wearside Medical Practice is a well organised, forward thinking and friendly Practice with an approximate list size of 8200 patients.

·      We currently have 1 GP Partner, 3 Advanced Nurse Practitioners supported by two Practice Nurses and 1 Health Care Assistant and a full complement of administrative staff.

·      We were rated overall Good by CQC in June 22.

·      The Practice maintains a very high QOF achievement each year.

·      The Practice uses EMIS Web supported by MJOG and GP TeamNet

·      Part of care home alignment scheme the Practice holds weekly MDT meetings to improve care of patients with complex needs.

·      The Practice holds regular formal clinical and nursing educational/MDT meetings.

 

 

Closing date: 27th September 2024

For further questions about the job, please contact:

Simon Williamson

Practice Manager

01915689510

 

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