General Practitioner

NHS; Rushden; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Harborough Field Surgery, part of NHS, is looking for an enthusiastic salaried GP to join their team for 6 sessions per week. You will provide high-quality general medical services, work alongside a supportive team, and engage with a patient population of about 14,000. Experience with EMIS Web is advantageous, and the role includes various clinical responsibilities in a busy primary care setting.

Qualifications

• Registered Medical Practitioner.
• MRCGP qualification required.
• Experience in primary care and patient management preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct surgery and telephone consultations.
• Manage patient records and referrals.
• Assess health care needs and develop care plans.

Skills

Assessment and diagnosis

Prescribing

Counselling

Education

MRCGP

Tools

EMIS Web

Choose and Book

Anima

Job description

Harborough Field Surgery is seeking an enthusiastic, salaried GP for 6 sessions per week, on a Monday, Tuesday & Friday.

Currentlya GMS practice, we are a consistent performer in QoF achieving a minimum of97.45% during the last 10 years. Weaccept the majority of DES & LES. We are a training practice, GP Enhanced Access Hub and carry out family planning/minor surgery clinics.

We hopeto support any special interests an applicant may have; and in this respectcurrently host medical students from Cambridge University.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be part of a primary care health team providing general medical services and will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

About us

Located on the outskirts of Rushden in a purpose built medical centre which opened in 2006, the surgery boasts 9 doctors, currently serving a population of some 14,000 patients.

Clinically the doctors are supported by a Clinical Pharmacist, 3 Nurse Practitioners, 4 Treatment Room Nurses, 1 Health Care Assistant and 2 Nursing Assocaites. We also have access to a First Contact Physiotherapist, a Paramedic Home Visiting service, daily Paediatric Nurse clinics, a Social Prescriber and Care Coordinators for our care home residents and elderly, frail patients.

Our Practice Manager is supported by an Operations Manager and our Administrative support team includes 8 Receptionists and 7 Administrator/Secretaries. The surgery is a training practice and hosts GP Trainees and Medical Students from Cambridge University. The surgery hosts the GP Enhanced Access Service.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

• The post-holder will make him/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, test results and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. The practice uses Anima as a total triage system.
• Work with the electronic document management system EMIS Web, ICE, Choose and Book, Dictation.
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
• Providing counselling and health education if the need arises
• 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 & quality purposes.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary and generically whenever this is clinically appropriate in liaison with the partners.
• To use the applicable Choose and Book systems for patient referrals etc.
• In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care under a GMS contract. This will include some on call sessions and visits.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MRCGP

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.