Salaried GP

The Methodist Church in Britain; Dudley; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kingswinford & Wordsley Primary Care Network is seeking a salaried GP to join its leadership team across five practices serving 50,000+ patients. The role involves clinical consultations, managing acute and chronic conditions, and prescribing, with four sessions weekly and two Saturday sessions.

The post requires Full GMC registration and inclusion on NHS England Medical Performers List; you will work across member practices and participate in network services and clinical governance.

Qualifications

• Primary medical qualification recognised by the GMC.
• CCT in General Practice or another recognised route to the GMC GP Register.
• MRCGP or recognised equivalent, where applicable.

Responsibilities

• Carry out face-to-face, telephone and remote consultations, assessing, diagnosing and managing patients with acute, chronic and undiagnosed conditions.
• Prescribe safely and cost-effectively, generate and authorise prescriptions, respond to medicines queries.
• Undertake home visits and participate in urgent and other clinical activity on the rota.
• Review results and act on them, keep accurate patient records on EMIS Web.
• Provide health promotion, referrals and signposting, work across PCN practices, contribute to services and pathways.
• Join multidisciplinary team meetings and support clinical governance and audit.

Skills

Consultation skills

Clinical assessment

Autonomous decision-making

Education

GMC-recognised medical degree

GP registration route (CCT or equivalent)

MRCGP or equivalent

Tools

EMIS Web

SNOMED CT coding

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Excel

Job description

This salaried GP post sits within Kingswinford & Wordsley Primary Care Network, which covers five practices and over 50,000 patients, and forms part of the network's leadership team. The work centres on clinical consultations, assessing and managing patients with acute and chronic conditions, and prescribing across member practices. It is a four-session role with two sessions on Saturdays, and the post-holder moves between practices as needs require. Full GMC registration and inclusion on the NHS England Medical Performers List are needed.

What the job involves

• Carry out face-to-face, telephone and remote consultations, assessing, diagnosing and managing patients with acute, chronic and undiagnosed conditions
• Make autonomous clinical decisions on patients seen directly or referred, and formulate management plans
• Prescribe safely and cost-effectively, generate and authorise acute and repeat prescriptions, and respond to medicines queries
• Undertake home visits and take part in urgent, same-day and other clinical activity on the agreed rota
• Review results, correspondence and test results and act on them
• Keep accurate patient records, including SNOMED CT coding, on EMIS Web
• Provide health promotion, preventative care, counselling, referrals and signposting
• Work across PCN member practices and contribute to network services, pathways and service development
• Take part in multidisciplinary team meetings and work with pharmacists, nurses and allied health professionals
• Contribute to clinical audit, quality improvement, clinical governance and significant event reviews
• Collect and record clinical data for audit and service evaluation
• Maintain patient confidentiality and information governance, and meet safeguarding responsibilities

What's required

Qualifications

• Primary medical qualification recognised by the GMC
• CCT in General Practice or another recognised route to the GMC GP Register
• MRCGP or recognised equivalent, where applicable

Registration & licences

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practise
• Entry on the GMC GP Register
• Inclusion on the NHS England Medical Performers List

Experience

• Experience of working in general practice or a primary care environment
• Experience of independently assessing, diagnosing and managing patients, with autonomous decision-making
• Experience of managing a varied workload, including acute, undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Understanding of Quality and Outcomes Framework requirements and experience of clinical audit or quality improvement

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent written, verbal and consultation skills
• Strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills, including recognising deteriorating patients
• Competent and experienced EMIS Web user, including electronic prescribing and SNOMED CT coding
• Competent in Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Teams and Excel

Other

• Availability for two sessions on Saturdays and two sessions during the working week

Nice to have

• Experience of working within a Primary Care Network
• Experience of working across more than one GP practice or clinical site
• Experience of developing or contributing to new clinical pathways or services
• Experience of PCN-wide or practice-wide quality improvement projects
• Experience of medicines optimisation or prescribing improvement work
• Knowledge of local ICB pathways and initiatives
• Experience of Enhanced Access, urgent care or same-day general practice
• Experience of population health or proactive care programmes