Practice Services Apprentice
Churchmere Medical Practice
Ellesmere, Whitchurch
Closes in 17 days (Monday 14 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 25 June 2025
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Summary
Churchmere Medical Group is currently recruiting a Practice Services Apprentice. The practice is keen to invest in future employees from an early stage. The role will enable the applicant to become a well-trained member of the team. The successful applicant will gain valuable experience working within an NHS setting.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Customer service specialist (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 8.00am/8.30am - 4.00pm/4.30pm. Shift pattern, days and shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 28 July 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The following are core responsibilities:
- Ensure an effective and efficient reception service is provided to patients and any other visitors to the practice
- Maintain and monitor the practice appointment system
- Process personal, telephone and e-requests for appointments.
- Contact patients to book follow-up care/appointments (including appointments for family planning and minor surgery) and pass on messages from other members of the practice
- Answer incoming phone calls, transfer calls or deal with the callers’ requests appropriately
- Signpost patients to the correct service
- Initiating contact with and responding to requests from patients, team members and external agencies
- Clinically code data on EMIS
- Data entry of new and temporary registrations and relevant patient information as required
- Input data into patients’ healthcare records as necessary
- Direct requests for information, i.e., SAR, insurance/solicitors’ letters and DVLA forms to the administrative team
- Manage all queries as necessary in an efficient manner
- Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times
- Support all clinical staff with general tasks as requested
- Complete opening and closing procedures
Where you'll work
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Churchmere Medical Practice, Trimpley Street, Ellesmere, SY12 0DB
- Clayton Health Centre, Pauls Moss, Whitchurch, SY13 1FQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
SBC TRAINING LIMITED
Your training course
Customer service specialist (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Business focused service delivery: Demonstrate a continuous improvement and future focussed approach to customer service delivery including decision making and providing recommendations or advice
- Business focused service delivery: Resolve complex issues by being able to choose from and successfully apply a wide range of approaches
- Business focused service delivery: Find solutions that meet your organisations needs as well as the customer requirements
- Providing a positive customer experience: Through advanced questioning, listening and summarising negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes
- Providing a positive customer experience: Manage challenging and complicated situations within your level of authority and make recommendations to enable and deliver change to service or strategy
- Providing a positive customer experience: Use clear explanations, provide options and solutions to influence and help customers make choices and agree next steps
- Providing a positive customer experience: Explore and interpret the customer experience to inform and influence achieving a positive result for customer satisfaction
- Providing a positive customer experience: Demonstrate a cost conscious mind-set when meeting customer and the business needs
- Providing a positive customer experience: Identifying where highs and lows of the customer journey produce a range of emotions in the customer
- Providing a positive customer experience: Use written and verbal communication to simplify and provide complex information in a way that supports positive customer outcome in the relevant format
- Working with customers/customer insights: Proactively gather customer feedback, through a variety of methods. Critically analyse, and evaluate the meaning, implication and facts and act upon it
- Working with customers/customer insights: Analyse your customer types, to identify or anticipate their potential needs and expectations when providing your service
- Customer Service performance: Maintain a positive relationship even when you are unable to deliver the customer’s expected outcome
- Customer Service performance: When managing referrals or escalations take into account historical interactions and challenges to determine next steps
- Service Improvement: Analyse the end to end service experience, seeking input from others where required, supporting development of solutions
- Service Improvement: Make recommendations based on your findings to enable improvement
- Service Improvement: Make recommendations and implement where possible, changes in line with new and relevant legislation, regulations and industry best practice
Your training plan
- Customer Service Specialist Level 3
- Apprentices will gain experience in managing priorities and their own time, problem-solving skills, decision-making and the potential for people management responsibilities through mentoring or coaching others
- Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours – Learners and employers will have a range of options to select from that cover each knowledge module of the apprenticeship standard
- Functional Skills - These provide practical skills to help gain the most out of work, education and everyday life. Learners will complete written and online tests if required
- End point assessment - The End Point Assessment is the final stage of the apprenticeship. It comprises observations as well as a professional dialogue and interview
- Further training details to be confirmed
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (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
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Knowledge of Microsoft
- Awareness of data security
- Confidentiality
Other requirements
The successful applicant will work on a rotational basis, spending two days each week between our Ellesmere and Whitchurch practice sites. This is a great opportunity to gain experience across both locations, working with a friendly and supportive team. This vacancy is being managed by SBC Training on behalf of this company. By submitting your application, you are consenting to allow SBC Training and Churchmere Medical Group to contact you in connection with your application.
About this company
In 2018, Ellesmere and Bridgewater Family Medical Practice and Claypit Street Medical Practice (Whitchurch) merged forming one new, larger practice to be known as Churchmere Medical Group. This will secure GP services for all practices, make possible a range of new innovative services, develop sustainable ways of working and attract and retain healthcare professionals more able to meet current and future challenges facing GPs and other practice staff.
After this apprenticeship
It is hoped that the successful applicant will continue to work on a full-time basis with Churchmere Medical Group following completion of the apprenticeship (this will be dependent upon performance throughout the duration of the apprenticeship programme).
If it transpires that continued employment with Churchmere Medical Group is not the preferred option, the training, experience and qualifications gained throughout the apprenticeship will stand the apprentice in very good stead to gain future employment.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SBC TRAINING LIMITED
Dave Collins
dave.collins@sbc-training.co.uk
01743454810
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000297488.
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Closes in 17 days (Monday 14 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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