Apprentice Data Technician

Hingham Surgery

NORWICH, NR9 4JB

Closes in 8 days (Sunday 20 October at 11:59pm)

Posted on 3 October 2024

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Summary

An exciting opportunity to join Hingham Surgery as an Apprentice Data Technician. The successful applicant will undertake a wide variety of administrative duties to assist in the smooth running of the surgery and prepare them for future employment.

Annual wage
£12,480 a year

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Training course
Data technician (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday. Shift Patterns to be confirmed.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 28 October

Duration

2 Years

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

The successful applicant will be required to work as a key member of our staff on a variety of data and administrative tasks. The role will require the ability to work in a team but also to be disciplined and motivated whilst working on your own after appropriate training.

The purpose of the role is to summarise relevant information from patient’s clinical letters and records into the practice clinical system, as well as general administration and IT work including recalls, and audits. The role will allow you to gain experience in many aspects of administration in primary care.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

  • Work in date order, evaluate clinical letters and documents within “Workflow” on the clinical system recognising key points.
  • Identify any SNOMED clinical coding or filing/scanning errors.
  • Add SNOMED clinical codes to the correct patient record.
  • Forward documents to the named GP when any actions or changes are required, clearly highlight the significant information.
  • Deal with any queries relating to SNOMED clinical coding.
  • Review medical records, checking for completeness (no gaps within the history)
  • Extract information for SNOMED clinical coding from a variety of sources.
  • Raise any issues identified with the named GP to resolve queries.
  • Maintain good medical records at all times.
  • File and retrieve paperwork.
  • Update and maintain referral templates.
  • Phoning patients to arrange/rearrange appointments and/or responding to queries.
  • Assign unmatched lab reports and electronic documents.
  • Administration of recalls for all long term conditions, immunisation programmes & drug monitoring on a weekly & monthly basis
  • Support and assist the IT & Systems Manager with any issues that arise.
     
  • And any other tasks/duties as requested by the Partner or Management Team.

Where you’ll work

THE SURGERY

HARDINGHAM STREET

HINGHAM

NORWICH

NR9 4JB

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

POULTEC TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Data technician (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents
  • Source and migrate data from already identified different sources.
  • Collect, format and save datasets.
  • Summarise and explain gathered data.
  • Blend data sets from multiple sources and present in format appropriate to the task.
  • Manipulate and link different data sets as required.
  • Use tools and techniques to identify trends and patterns in data.
  • Apply basic statistical methods and algorithms to identify trends and patterns in data.
  • Apply cross checking techniques for identifying faults and data results for data project requirements.
  • Audit data results.
  • Demonstrate the different ways of communicating meaning from data in line with audience requirements.
  • Produce clear and consistent technical documentation using standard organisational templates.
  • Store, manage and distribute in compliance with data security standards and legislation.
  • Explain data and results to different audiences in a way that aids understanding.
  • Review own development needs.
  • Keep up to date with developments in technologies, trends and innovation using a range of sources.
  • Clean data i.e. remove duplicates, typos, duplicate entries, out of date data, parse data (e.g. format telephone numbers according to a national standard) and test and assess confidence in the data and its integrity.
  • Operate as part of a multi-functional team.
  • Prioritise within the context of a project.
  • Source and migrate data from already identified different sources.
  • Collect, format and save datasets.
  • Summarise and explain gathered data.
  • Blend data sets from multiple sources and present in format appropriate to the task.
  • Manipulate and link different data sets as required.
  • Use tools and techniques to identify trends and patterns in data.
  • Apply basic statistical methods and algorithms to identify trends and patterns in data.
  • Apply cross checking techniques for identifying faults and data results for data project requirements.
  • Audit data results.
  • Demonstrate the different ways of communicating meaning from data in line with audience requirements.
  • Produce clear and consistent technical documentation using standard organisational templates.
  • Store, manage and distribute in compliance with data security standards and legislation.
  • Explain data and results to different audiences in a way that aids understanding.
  • Review own development needs.
  • Keep up to date with developments in technologies, trends and innovation using a range of sources.
  • Clean data i.e. remove duplicates, typos, duplicate entries, out of date data, parse data (e.g. format telephone numbers according to a national standard) and test and assess confidence in the data and its integrity.
  • Operate as part of a multi-functional team.
  • Prioritise within the context of a project.

    • Your training plan

    Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date.

    More training information

    • L3 Data technician Apprenticeship Standard

    Requirements

    Essential qualifications

    GCSE in:

    • English (grade 4)
    • Math's (grade 4)

    Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

    Skills

    • Communication skills
    • IT skills
    • Attention to detail
    • Organisation skills
    • Customer care skills
    • Administrative skills
    • Number skills
    • Logical
    • Team working
    • Physical fitness

    About this company

    The doctors and staff at Hingham Surgery are proud to offer the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare. The practice operates a personal patient list meaning that each patient has a named GP who is responsible for their routine care. We run many clinics for the management of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical services including antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinations and well-person check-ups.

    https://hinghamsurgery.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

    After this apprenticeship

    • Potential full-time employment.

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    POULTEC TRAINING LIMITED

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000280450.

    Apply now

    Closes in 8 days (Sunday 20 October at 11:59pm)

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