BridgeLane Group Practice a experienced Medical coder to join our practice team.
We are committed to a high standard of patient-centred care, to supporting our staff and helping to train the clinicians of the future.
Benefits
- Free staff carpark
- Support for portfolio career and personal development opportunities
- Purpose built premises close to Battersea Park and Battersea Power Station
- Good transport links
- Employment assistance Program
BridgeLane is an equal opportunities employer and holder of the Pride in Practice Gold Award.
Main duties of the job
- Read code all incoming letters via the electronic system and save to the patients record.
- To summarise and read code relevant information received from the Primary Care Support Service into EMIS Web.
- Ensure the practice has a robust system to record relevant clinical information.
- Scan paper notes when appropriate.
- Work in accordance with the Practice summarising/coding protocol.
- Read code all incoming medical letters received from the clinical team, either on paper or electronically.
- Summarise, code and re-direct all letters, as appropriate, received from various sources.
- Check all computerised information is appropriately coded.
- Check incoming letters for investigations ensuring all are entered appropriately.
- Review medical records and produce an accurate summary of the patients medical history according to practice protocols.
- Read coding the information into the practice clinical system in accordance with local and practice guidelines.
- Filing and retrieving paperwork.
- Monitor progress of notes summarising against practice targets.
- Make clinicians aware of any medical problems needing follow up or immediate treatment or intervention.
- Alert clinicians to any reviews due for chronic disease monitoring.
- Regularly check the electronic inbox for all work outstanding.
- Alert any other team members to issues of quality and risk.
- Any other tasks related to the above as required by your line manager or the Operations manager.
About us
Bridge Lane Group Practice is a busy, friendly practice serving a diverse inner-city population of approximately 14500 patients and 35 staff including 12 GPs and 4 practice nurses. We work in a modern, purpose-built building very close to Battersea Park, with very good transport links.
We are a training practice for trainee GPs and student nurses and are very active within our local PCN.
We value the diversity of our staff and patients, and are holders of the Pride in Practice Gold Award and the Primary Care Health and Wellbeing Employer Pledge.
Person Specification
Personal style and behaviour
- Effective team player
- Able to work under own initiative
- Desire to provide high quality service
- Professionalism
- Willing to undertake new challenges
- Willingness to undertake further training and development.
Experience
- Working knowledge of Microsoft packages (Word/Excel/Emails)
- Working knowledge of EMIS Web
- Experience of working in a GP Practice
Qualifications
- A high standard of education in Maths, English
- ECDL
- NVQ level 2 in Customer Service
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.
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
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