Salaried General Practitioner (Maternity Leave Cover)

Newbury Green Medical Practice; Salford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Newbury Green Medical Practice in Salford is seeking a fixed-term salaried GP with a view to permanency to work 6 sessions per week. The post involves managing a caseload in a modern, student-training GMS practice with EMIS and extended hours.

The role is ideal for an enthusiastic GP looking for maternity leave cover and potential permanency within a friendly team. The post holder will deliver high-quality clinical care, participate in training activities, and contribute to service expansion and

Qualifications

• MBChB degree required.
• MRCP or MRCGP membership as applicable for GP.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting.
• Make professional, autonomous decisions and provide high standards of care.
• Support training and development of medical students and FY2s.

Education

MBCHB

MRCGP

Job description

Salaried General Practitioner (Maternity Leave Cover)

Newbury Green Medical Practice in Salford is looking for a Fixed-term salaried GP with a view to possible permanacy to work 6 sessions per week.

Due to Maternity Leave and also the continued success of the practice and serviceexpansion plans, we are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed GP tobecome a team member in a friendly GMS student training practice.

Informal discussions and visits welcome.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder 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

• Modern purpose-built Health Centre with excellent patient/staff facilities
• EMIS clinical system with remote access options
• Excellent supportive, experienced and friendly practice team
• Primary Care Network involvement and Leadership
• Excellent links with Public Health Services and Local Communities
• Training of Medical Students / FY2s
• Extended evening hours

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

The post-holder 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.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self 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, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• 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
• 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)
• Promote, monitor and maintain best practice in health, safety & security and all aspects of safeguarding
• 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.
• Referencing appropriate quality scheme (e.g. QOF / Salford Standard) information at each consultation

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

• 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
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
• Participation in enhanced access hours surgeries on a rota basis and evening meetings from time to time as deemed necessary by the practice
• Assist where required, with the training and development of medical students and GP trainees

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MBCHB
• 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.