General Practitioner - Furnace House Surgery

The Methodist Church in Britain; Carmarthen; A distancia; GBP 90.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Indemnity contribution

Mentorship program

Flexible scheduling

Training scheme links

Staff wellbeing

Descripción de la vacante

Furnace House Surgery is seeking a salaried GP to join a seven‑partner practice serving around 15,000 patients. The role focuses on managing undifferentiated caseloads through surgery and telephone consultations, with home visits, repeat prescribing, and on‑call duties.

The post offers mentoring for newly qualified GPs in a training site setting and flexible patterns including job share. The role requires full GMC registration, medical defence cover and local performers list inclusion; a

Formación

• Full and unrestricted GMC registration.
• Membership of a medical defence body.
• Inclusion on a local performers list.
• Commitment to lifelong learning and audit.
• Annual appraisal and accreditation evidence.
• Flexibility in duties and location of work where the practice requires.

Responsabilidades

• Manage a caseload of patients presenting with a wide range of primary care health needs.
• Carry out surgery consultations, telephone consultations and home visits in line with the practice timetable.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions, assess undifferentiated problems and develop care plans with patients.
• Issue and sign repeat and acute prescriptions, prescribing in line with the formulary.
• Admit, discharge and refer patients internally and externally as appropriate.
• Support trainers and give clinical supervision to training doctors.
• Provide on‑call cover, answering patient telephone queries and carrying out emergency home visits.
• Contribute to clinical governance, audit, data collection and clinical standard setting.
• Keep clear, contemporaneous IT consultation notes and handle paperwork and correspondence promptly.
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early illness, and provide counselling and health education.
• Contribute to practice planning, policies, guidelines and decision making with the team.
• Attend training, practice meetings and events, and meet audit and return deadlines.

Descripción del empleo

A salaried GP post at Furnace House Surgery, a seven-partner practice with around 15,000 patients. The work centres on managing a caseload of undifferentiated presentations through surgery and telephone consultations, home visits, repeat prescribing and on‑call duties, with some supervision of training doctors. The post is for 6 to 8 sessions a week, with job share and flexible patterns considered, and the practice is a training site that offers mentoring for newly qualified GPs. Fit depends on full GMC registration, medical defence cover and inclusion on a local performers list.

What the job involves

• Manage a caseload of patients presenting with a wide range of primary care health needs
• Carry out surgery consultations, telephone consultations and home visits in line with the practice timetable
• Make autonomous clinical decisions, assess undifferentiated problems and develop care plans with patients
• Issue and sign repeat and acute prescriptions, prescribing in line with the formulary
• Admit, discharge and refer patients internally and externally as appropriate
• Support trainers and give clinical supervision to training doctors
• Provide on‑call cover, answering patient telephone queries and carrying out emergency home visits
• Contribute to clinical governance, audit, data collection and clinical standard setting
• Keep clear, contemporaneous IT consultation notes and handle paperwork and correspondence promptly
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early illness, and provide counselling and health education
• Contribute to practice planning, policies, guidelines and decision making with the team
• Attend training, practice meetings and events, and meet audit and return deadlines

What’s required

Registration & licences

• Full and unrestricted GMC registration
• Membership of a medical defence body
• Inclusion on a local performers list

Other

• Commitment to lifelong learning and audit to ensure evidence-based practice
• Annual appraisal and accreditation evidence
• Flexibility in duties and location of work where the practice requires

What’s offered

• Competitive salary package including a contribution towards medical indemnity
• BMA model contract
• Regular mentorship sessions for newly qualified GPs
• Multidisciplinary support from pharmacists, chronic disease nurses and a specialist diabetic nurse
• Flexible working, including job share
• Training practice links with the GP Training Scheme and Swansea University Medical School
• Support for staff wellbeing and development