Salaried GP

NHS; Chipping Ongar; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ongar Health Centre is seeking a salaried General Practitioner for maternity cover for 6 months. This role involves handling consultations, patient assessments, and medication management in a reputable training practice. As a fully qualified GP, you will contribute to patient care and compliance with healthcare standards, with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Experience in chronic disease management and screening.
• Commitment to life-long learning and audit.
• Ability to manage personal career development.

Responsibilities

• Undertake surgery and telephone consultations.
• Assess healthcare needs of patients with undiagnosed problems.
• Deliver enhanced services and record clear consultation notes.

Skills

Chronic disease management

Primary prevention & screening service

Inter-personal communication skills

Education

Fully qualified GP with GMC registration

Annual appraisal and revalidation

On the NHSE medical performers list

Job description

Ongar Health Centre is looking to welcome a salaried GP for a maternity cover for 6 months, starting on 1st October 2025. This position is offered on 4 sessions per week on a Wednesday and a Thursday.

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking 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, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting medical problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation.
• Assessing the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Providing health education.
• Recording clear consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements.
• Delivering enhanced services.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
• All general duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

About us

We are a large, busy training practice, serving a patient population of 12,500 and operating from purpose built premises. We use SystmOne clinical system and are rated Good with CQC.

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about thisrole, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.

Person Specification

Experience

• Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management and primary prevention & screening service.
• Ability to take responsibility for your own career development, learning and performance and are responsible for ensuring that all your mandatory training is in date.
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
• Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills in a confidential manner.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
• Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
• Be on the NHSE medical performers list

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.

Depending on experience- depending on experience