GP assistant job

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Is anyone a GP assistant? If so can you please let me know what your job entails? And how you got into the job… thanks in advance!

I’m not but I have 2 in my team.

They do 50% clinical HCA work and 50% admin work. However practices can use them pretty much as they see fit so some practices will have a different workload and split for them. Most do a mixture though.

Mine were previously an admin woman wanting to get into clinical work, and the other was an ex hospital HCA.

I’m a GPA.
It’s basically a HCA with a bit of admin thrown in.
I applied for a job to be a HCA at a GP surgery-focus mainly on blood tests and blood pressures-which was listed as no experience necessary.
I spent a couple of years just doing mornings of blood tests and BPs then, when DC were older and I needed more hours, funding became available for a GPA role so I just moved into that. I still spend probably 65% of my time doing clinical work -so blood tests, BP, flu, pneumonia, shingles, and Covid vaccinations, B12 injections, ECGs, suture removals and dressings, the rest of my time is admin.
I do patient recalls for people needing annual checks for chronic health conditions (hypertension, diabetes etc), chasing up people who’s checks are overdue but who don’t seem to want to book, calling people who need retests if their blood results are out of range, looking at the reams of letters people send in to see if I need to bring it to the Drs attention or if it’s them requesting copies of letters, a list of their blood pressure readings or an inappropriate request for medication etc.
I will say it is appallingly paid, it is just slightly above NLW, and some staff working in retail get paid more than I do.
The advantages are weekends and bank holidays off and a decent pension.