Apprentice Patient Care Advisor

Lionwood Medical Practice

NORWICH (NR1 4NU)

Closes in 15 days (Friday 25 September 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 10 September 2026

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Summary

The successful candidate will be working as a key part of the Practice team, working alongside administration colleagues and supporting the clinical team to manage a busy caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in the primary care setting. 

Wage

£15,808 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

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Training course
Customer service practitioner (level 2)
Hours
Working hours per week Variable Hours between - Mondays to Fridays 8am starts – 6.30pm finish 38 hours of which 5 hours a week off the job training and 34 hours working in the role

38 hours a week

Start date

Monday 28 September 2026

Duration

1 year

Positions available

2

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

Main duties and responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities to be undertaken by members of the Practice administration team may include any or all of the items in the following list. Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the Office Manager/Operations Manager, dependent on current and evolving Practice workload and staffing levels:

Reception Duties:

  • Maintaining and monitoring the Practice appointments system
  • Acting on electronic tasks to book appointments, deliver messages to patients, process electronic referrals.
  • Processing personal and telephone requests for appointments, visits and telephone consultations and ensuring callers are directed to the appropriate healthcare professional
  • Processing electronic requests
  • Processing incoming requests for medical reports, prescriptions or other enquiries and ensuring they are forwarded to the correct staff members for completion
  • Taking and recording requests for home visits ensuring full details of need are recorded and checking that the address and telephone number is correct.
  • Dealing with requests for emergency treatment, either in the surgery or in the patients home and passing on promptly to the duty doctor.
  • Receiving patients consulting with members of practice team
  • Initiating contact with and responding to requests from patients, other team members and associated healthcare agencies and providers
  • Handing completed repeat prescriptions to patient and checking names and address.
  • Answering the telephone and conveying messages
  • Accepting requests for repeat prescriptions, checking regularly both the electronic and paper routes for repeat prescription requests
  • Maintaining electronic log of telephone messages
  • Filing results and any other relevant documents in patients' notes
  • Maintenance of patients' notes including starting a new wallet when required and dividing the contents in a logical manner
  • Charging the appropriate amount for private work.
  • Helping with the sorting of filing in new medical records in order that they are in the form used in the Surgery
  • Dealing with requests for test results.
  • Ensuring that all other requests for information or queries and entries on the computer and if not completed at the end of your shift, are handed over to an incoming member of staff for completion and vice versa.
  • Taking details of requests for medical certificates of any kind, insurance forms and any others requested and dealing with them efficiently and promptly.
  • Referring patient suggestions/complaints/comments directly to the Practice Manager for further discussion.

Administration:

  • To have a thorough knowledge of all Practice procedures.
  • To work in accordance with written protocols
  • Filing post in medical records
  • Processing and distributing incoming mail
  • Taking messages and passing on information
  • Filing and retrieving paperwork
  • Generating template letters requesting patients attend for follow-up.
  • Arranging transport for patients where appropriate.

Computer:

  • Computer data entry/data allocation and collation; processing and recording information in accordance with Practice procedures
  • Registrations of new patients
  • Process patients change of address.
  • Scanning of mail onto computer system and completing workflow.
  • Processing daily Pathlinks appointments ensuring patients have appointments booked according to instructions given by GPs when results received.
  • Maintaining a basic knowledge of repeat prescriptions so that should it be necessary, you can issue from the computer record in line with Practice policy and protocol.

Where you'll work

30A WELLESLEY AVENUE NORTH
NORWICH
NR1 4NU

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

POULTEC TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Customer service practitioner (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Use a range of questioning skills, including listening and responding in a way that builds rapport, determines customer needs and expectations and achieves positive engagement and delivery.
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills, along with summarising language during face-to-face communications; and/or
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate communication skills, along with reinforcement techniques (to confirm understanding) during non-facing customer interactions.
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use an appropriate ‘tone of voice’ in all communications, including written and digital, that reflect the organisation’s brand.
  • Provide clear explanations and offer options in order to help customers make choices that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and your organisation.
  • Be able to organise yourself, prioritise your own workload/activity and work to meet deadlines.
  • Demonstrate patience and calmness.
  • Show you understand the customer’s point of view.
  • Use appropriate sign-posting or resolution to meet your customers needs and manage expectations.
  • Maintain informative communication during service recovery.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (grade 4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this employer

At Lionwood Medical Practice, we are dedicated to providing comprehensive and compassionate healthcare services to individuals and families in Norwich and the surrounding communities. Our practice is committed to promoting wellness, preventing illness, and delivering high-quality care that meets the diverse needs of our patients.

We are a busy City Practice, providing services for 15,500 patients.

We use SystmOne for our Clinical system, and also utilise various digital platforms such as Accurx and our online triage system is SystmOne to support our processes.

We are a friendly team committed to supporting training and development opportunities within our practice and the wider local community.

https://www.lionwoodmedicalpractice.nhs.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

We offer you: Competitive pay, 4 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays, NHS pension, Uniform, Complimentary Refreshments (all tea, coffee, water cooler), free parking, training opportunities and development, annual salary review, social events, structured environment with regular appraisal and feedback.
The successful applicant will also experience a full induction program, and supported learning with a mentor system, until confidence is gained.

Disability Confident

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

Potential for full time employment upon completion.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

POULTEC TRAINING LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000052860.

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Closes in 15 days (Friday 25 September 2026 at 11:59pm)