Salaried GP

National health service; Broughton; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Island City Practice in Portsmouth is offering a Salaried GP position with a flexible workload. We require 4–8 sessions per week and offer competitive remuneration within a modern general practice setting.

The role involves working in a multidisciplinary team using SystmOne for triage, delivering high-quality care while maintaining a sustainable workload for GPs in a busy urban setting.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified GP with GMC registration and licence to practice.
• Recent experience of working in general practice in the UK.
• Experience in a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Understanding the health and social needs of a local practice patient population.

Responsibilities

• Make autonomous clinical decisions for presenting problems.
• Assess health care needs of patients with undifferentiated conditions.
• Provide counselling and health education.
• Maintain accurate consultation notes and patient records.

Skills

Verbal communication

Record keeping

Understanding patient needs

Education

GMC registration and medical licence

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Responsibilities

• 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;
• 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;
• Collecting data for audit purposes;
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding handwritten prescriptions whenever possible);
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate;

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;

In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

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.

Person Specification

Experience

• Essential: Recent experience of working in general practice in the UK.
• Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary and skill mixed team environment.

Desirable

• Evidence of independent working in General Practice.
• Experience of supporting service change.
• Evidence of participation in Audit.
• Evidence of participation in QOF.

Skills & Abilities

• Essential: Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient population.
• Committed to personal and professional development.
• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Excellent record keeping.

Desirable (Skill)

• Fully conversant with SystmOne.

Qualifications

• Essential: Fully qualified GP with GMC registration and licence to practice.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Job Summary

We are offering an opportunity to apply for a Salaried GP Position at Island City Practice (ICP). We require 4-8 sessions and offer competitive remuneration rates. Our practice aims to be Innovative, Caring and Professional.
ICP is a friendly and supportive environment for GPs to Practice safely and effectively with a manageable and sustainable workload. The Practice has embraced a Modern General Practice approach that effectively triages demand and embraces care delivered by a multiprofessional team.

Main duties of the job

We offer a dynamic mix of chronic and acute work, using Anima alongside SystmOne for our triage system.
GPs at the practice work in small GP teams and hold their own personalised list. This gives balances continuity of care but with the stability and resilience of working in a larger practice.
Our Triage Team is multidisciplinary, including GPs, Advanced Nursing and Paramedic Practitioners for same day care. In addition to routine GP clinics, we run a highly organised nurse led chronic disease service and offer excellent Treatment room care. We have a fully developed PCN ARRS team including Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, Social Prescribers, First Contact Physiotherapy, Mental Health Facilitators and an Occupational Therapist.

About us

Island City Practice is an innovative, friendly and forward thinking surgery located in the fascinating Historic Naval City Of Portsmouth on the South Coast. Where we lead others follow. General Practice is changing at pace and we see this positively and as an exciting opportunity.
Our list size is c.37,000 patients. We are a training practice and work from three modern purpose built sites in central Portsmouth. We are the lead practice for Island City Network.