General Practitioner (GP) - Salaried

The Methodist Church in Britain; Swindon; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible sessions

Protected CPD

Relocation support

Job summary

The Methodist Church in Britain seeks a qualified GP for a salaried primary care post. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team delivering face-to-face, telephone and home-visit consultations, develop care plans, and manage prescribing within the practice formulary.

Flexible session patterns (full or part-time) are available, with relocation support considered. You will contribute to governance, audits and patient care to high standards in a busy primary care setting.

Qualifications

• Qualified GP with current registration.
• Experience in primary care, urgent or community settings.
• Ability to develop care plans and manage caseload.

Responsibilities

• Face-to-face, telephone and home visit consultations and prescription checks.
• Assess undifferentiated health needs and make autonomous clinical decisions.
• Develop care plans in line with current disease management protocols.
• Record clear consultation notes and contribute to audit data.

Skills

Communication

Team liaison

Holistic assessment

Clinical judgement

IT skills

Time management

Education

Qualified GP

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Salaried GP post in the partnership formed when Newport Health Centre and Cowes Medical Centre merged in October, with both sites keeping their own GMS contracts. The work centres on patient consultations, home visits, repeat and acute prescribing, care planning and audit within a multi-disciplinary primary care team. Sessions can be full or part-time, with flexibility around them and relocation support considered. Applicants need to be a qualified GP.

What the job involves

• Face-to-face, telephone and home visit consultations, plus repeat prescription checks and correspondence
• Assessing undifferentiated and undiagnosed health needs and making autonomous clinical decisions
• Developing care plans with patients in line with current disease management protocols
• Compiling computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, prescribing per the practice formulary where clinically appropriate
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Admitting and discharging patients and referring them to other care providers
• Providing counselling and health education
• Recording clear, contemporaneous consultation notes and collecting audit data
• Contributing to clinical governance, clinical audit, complaints reviews and significant event learning
• Delivering services to the practice population to the highest standard, including QOF
• Managing own workload and time, working on own initiative and adjusting priorities
• Using practice IT systems, including SystmOne

Qualifications

• Qualified GP

Experience

• Delivering patient care in a primary care, urgent or community setting
• In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of evidence-based healthcare principles
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Clear understanding of professional responsibility and accountability
• Knowledge of current evidence-based clinical practice

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent communication and emotional intelligence, including with distressed or aggressive patients
• Liaising effectively with the multi-disciplinary team and other services
• Holistic assessment and critical analysis of complex patient information
• Clinical judgement and decision-making on the best course of action
• Strong IT skills
• Time management, planning and organising, with excellent attention to detail

Other

• Working as a team member and autonomously
• Skilled in clinical history taking
• Flexible and cooperative
• Motivated and proactive

What’s offered

• Competitive pay
• Flexible sessions to fit around working life
• Protected CPD
• Good work-life balanceRelocation support will be considered