General Practitioner

NHS; Whitehaven; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mansion House Surgery, part of the NHS, seeks an enthusiastic and compassionate salaried GP for 4-6 sessions weekly in Whitehaven. Join a supportive multi-disciplinary team providing excellent care for 7,500 patients in a friendly and patient-focused environment. Ensure high standards in a vibrant clinical setting while being involved in training and education.

Benefits

Supportive multi-disciplinary team

Opportunities for continued professional development

Qualifications

• Qualified GP with full GMC registration and eligibility to practice in the UK.
• Experience in primary care and understanding of clinical audits.

Responsibilities

• Provide general practice consultations and physical examinations.
• Make professional, autonomous decisions regarding patient care.
• Develop care plans and screen for disease risk factors.

Skills

Clinical decision-making

Patient assessment

Health education

Education

General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training)

Full GMC Registration

Eligibility to practice in the UK independently

Job description

Mansion House Surgery is looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate salaried GP (or GP considering partnership) who would provide 4-6 clinical sessions per week.

We are a friendly, supportive, patient-centred and forward thinking GP surgery providing care to approximately 7,500 patients on the west coast of Cumbria. Our team includes a pharmacist, pharmacy technician, paramedic, sonographer, OT, Care Coordinator as well as excellent GPs, HCAS and nurses including three ANPs and an administration support team.

Main duties of the job

As a salaried GP you would provide support for the two GP partners and three salaried GPs to manage a busy and interesting clinical caseload ensuring the highest standard of care for all our patients.

You would provide general practice consultations to patients and where appropriate physical examinations for the purpose of identifying or reducing the risk of disease or injury.

You would carry out all the duties reasonably expected of a general practitioner using the standards expected by the GMC.

About us

Mansion House Surgery is a 7,500 patient training practice based in the centre of Whitehaven. The building is a Georgian built town house which has been structurally modified to provide clinical space and facilities. Whitehaven is an historic seaside town with pockets of deprivation which has experienced regeneration developments over the last few years.

Our practice values kindness, approachability, friendliness and compassion alongside high standards of clinical care. Our working environment is supportive and collaborative. We are a training practice and have a diverse clinical team including Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Pharmacist. We also teach medical students and GP Registrars. We work very much as a team and encourage and value everyone's contributions.

The practice has a shared belief in the delivery of high quality, patient centred and evidence based healthcare. There is a strong emphasis on continuity of care and a commitment to continue developing patient services.

We are a practice that performs well in QOF and other national and local agreed services and we currently hold a GOOD rating with the CQC. We are proud of having:

A supportive multi-disciplinary team on site

Highly skilled nursing team

Very good staff retention rates

A North Cumbria wide Ultrasound Service running clinics in our own surgery as well as local community based hospitals

A 24 ECG service for Copeland patients

Job responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems.
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.
• 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.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other responsibilities within the practice:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records.
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified GP
• General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training)
• Full GMC Registration
• National Performers List registration
• Eligibility to practice in the UK independently

Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Experience of continued professional development
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit

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.