General Practice Assistant

Lakeside Healthcare Group; Corby; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Lakeside Healthcare is seeking a motivated General Practice Assistant (GPA) to join our Corby team, part of Rockingham Forest PCN. This 30-hour-per-week role combines clinical and administrative duties, supporting GPs with patient care, blood tests, and care coordination within a multidisciplinary team.

Training opportunities include support towards the General Practice Assistant qualification; visa sponsorship is not available. Applicants must have right to work in the UK.

Qualifications

• GCSE Maths/English at grade C or above.
• General Practice Assistant Certificate or willingness to work towards it.
• Phlebotomy qualification, ECG, Patient Health Checks, Blood Pressure Measuring.
• Basic First Aid knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and administrative support to practices.
• Improve patient access and capacity for long-term condition management.
• Prepare patients for consultations with baseline observations (BP, height/weight, ECG).
• Support medication review clinics with monitoring and investigations.
• Assist with long-term condition management and health checks.

Skills

Phlebotomy skills

Administrative support

Clinical observations

Blood tests handling

Patient communication

Education

GCSE Maths/English

General Practice Assistant Certificate

Phlebotomy qualification

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

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 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

• Educated to GCSE level in Maths/English, grade C or above.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

£19,882 to £20,336 a yearDependent on Experience