General Practitioner – BrisDoc Healthcare Services

AVON LMC LTD; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a salaried GP at a vibrant medical practice in Bristol. This role offers a supportive environment with a dedicated wellbeing team, innovative access models, and opportunities for a portfolio career. You'll engage in meaningful patient care, making autonomous clinical decisions while enjoying a collaborative atmosphere with fellow GPs. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this practice values your unique contributions and experiences. If you're passionate about primary care and looking for a sustainable career, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Paid Overtime for Training

Dedicated Wellbeing Team

Collaborative GP Team Meetings

Administrative Support

Qualifications

• Must have a Medical Degree and GP training.
• Strong clinical decision-making and patient assessment skills required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct surgery and telephone consultations, triage, and home visits.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions and prescribe medications.

Skills

Clinical Decision Making

Patient Assessment

Communication Skills

Prescribing Knowledge

Education

Medical Degree

GP Training

Tools

Electronic Health Records

Clinical Coding Software

Job description

Overview

Job summary

This salaried GP role is based at BrisDoc's Charlotte Keel Medical Practice, in Easton.

No matter where you work these days, General Practice is a demanding job, but we are trying our best to enable a sustainable career through:

• Having a dedicated team responsible for Wellbeing within the BrisDoc family
• Meeting daily as a GP team for coffee and lunch
• Administrative staff to process letters and discharge summaries, dealing with clinical coding, reducing the paperwork burden for GPs
• Innovative GP access model led by GPs ensuring continuity of care and appropriate signposting
• Regular GO strategic meetings where all voices contribute to how we plan GP workload and access
• Paid overtime for completing mandatory and statutory training

Outside the Practice, Charlotte Keel GPs have roles in Education, Mentoring, the LMC/GPC, Sustainability and Urgent Care and a founder member of BNSSG Deep End Network. There is extensive experience to support a portfolio career and facilitate these networks.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

Clinical

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, you will be available to undertake a proportionate share of a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triage, 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, whether self-referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• 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, you will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

About us

BrisDoc is an employee-owned social enterprise with over twenty years of experience in providing NHS Healthcare. We serve over one million patients across the Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire through our Severnside Integrated Urgent Care, In-Hours Primary Care, and Homeless Health Service.

At BrisDoc, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and experiences.

Application Process:
Interested candidates can send their resumes to the contact person as above in the job posts.