ARRS GP

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Watford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

North Watford PCN is seeking a fully qualified GP to join a forward-thinking primary care team in Watford. You will work autonomously and with other professionals to assess, diagnose and treat patients within a busy primary care setting.

The role requires GMC registration, MRCGP, and CCT, with extensive experience in CPD, QOF, audits, and IT skills (EMIS/Outlook). Strong communication and organisational skills are essential for high-quality care.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified GP with GMC registration.
• MRCGP and CCT completed.
• Experience of working in a primary care environment.
• Commitment to CPD and clinical audit.
• Understanding of the primary care contract.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong IT skills and MS Office proficiency.
• Polite, clear telephone manner with good interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in EMIS and Outlook usage.
• Good time management, planning and organisation.
• Ability to work in a team and autonomously.
• Experience leading audit programmes and clinical risk management.
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure.

Responsibilities

• Performing as an autonomous GP working independently and with others to assess and treat patients in primary care.
• Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues.
• Be professionally accountable for all aspects of clinical practice under GMC code.
• Provide counselling and health education.
• Admit or discharge patients and refer to other care providers as appropriate.
• Record clear, contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collect data for audit purposes.
• Compile and issue acute and repeat prescriptions.
• Prescribe in line with the ICB formulary where appropriate.
• Collaborate closely with partners in the community.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong IT skills

EMIS user skills

Time management and organisation

Teamwork and autonomous work

Audit leadership

Clinical risk management

Problem solving and analytical skills

Education

GMC registration

MRCGP

CCT

Tools

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Job description

About the Role

North Watford PCN have an exciting opportunity to join a forward thinking Primary Care Network (PCN) as a GP and become an integral part of a diverse clinical team delivering care to our 25,000+ registered patients. We are a small innovative PCN based in North Watford and one of the practices is renowned for their excellent teaching reputation. We have progressed well with the national recruitment agenda and have already recruited Clinical Pharmacists, Social Prescribers, a Paramedic, an ANPs and a Mental Health Link Worker. Due to the changes in the ARRS Scheme to introduce General Practitioners we are looking to expand our team by seeking to employ a qualified General Practitioner to join our team.

Main duties of the role:

• Performing as an autonomous general practitioner working independently and with other health care professionals to assess, diagnose and treat the conditions of patients attending within a primary care setting.
• Providing expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.
• To be professionally accountable and responsible for all elements of clinical practice in accordance with the GMC code of conduct ensuring the safety of patients and quality of their care is primary.
• Providing counselling and health education
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
• Prescribing in accordance with the ICB prescribing formulary whenever this is clinically appropriate

We work closely with our partners in the community.

For further details, please see job description attached.

About the Candidate

All applicants should have the following qualifications:

• Fully qualified GP with GMC registration.
• MRCGP.
• General Practitioner Certificate of Completion of Training CCT.
• Experience of working in a primary care environment.
• Experience of continued professional development.
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit.
• General understanding of the primary care contract.
• Excellent communication skills written and oral.
• Strong IT skills.
• Clear polite telephone manner.
• Competent in the use of office and outlook.
• EMIS user skills.
• Effective time management planning and organising.
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure.
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes.
• Experience with clinical risk management.

Desirable:

• Working within MDT settings.

About Us

We are a small, forward thinking, innovative primary care network (PCN) based in north Watford who have a diverse clinical team delivering care to our 25,000+ registered patients. We are one of the practices who is renowned for their excellent teaching reputation. We have progressed well with the national recruitment agenda and have already recruited clinical pharmacists, social prescribers, a paramedic, an ANP and a mental health link worker.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.