Salaried GP

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Lawford; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Life insurance

Family benefits (dependents pension)

Ill health benefits

20% employer contribution

Job summary

Lawford Surgery is seeking a salaried GP to join a busy dispensing practice on a part-time basis, with flexible days and shift patterns. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive primary care, including consultations, home visits, and prescription management.

You will take autonomous clinical decisions within current practice guidelines, manage chronic diseases, contribute to audits, and deliver health education while maintaining confidential patient notes.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified GP with GMC registration.
• Annual appraisal and revalidation as required.
• Be on the NHSE medical performers list.
• Experience in chronic disease management and prevention.
• Strong commitment to professional development and training compliance.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Carry out surgery and telephone consultations, home visits, and signing repeat prescriptions.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions in line with practice protocols.
• Assess undifferentiated and undiagnosed patient needs.
• Develop care plans and provide health education.
• Record clear notes and collect data for audits.

Skills

Chronic disease management

Career development & learning

Policy awareness

Lifelong learning & audit

Interpersonal & confidential comms

Education

GMC registration

Annual appraisal and revalidation

NHSE medical performers list

Tools

Emis Web

Job description

About the Role

Lawford Surgery is looking for a salaried GP to join our busy dispensing practice on a part-time basis. We are flexible with regard to days/shift patterns.

Working as part of our multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to support and care for a diverse patient group.

The role will include a general duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care, as well as:

• 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;
• Developing care plans for health consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols;
• 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 the Candidate

All applicants should have the following qualifications:

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

and skills, including:

• Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services;
• 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 and guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety;
• Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner.
• Experience in Emis Web preferred but not essential

About Us

Lawford Surgery is a semi-rural dispensing practice with approx 5,500 patients located in the village of Lawford, Manningtree, Essex.

We pride ourselves on maintaining a positive, friendly and supportive working environment where colleagues work closely together, value each other’s contributions, and are committed to delivering high-quality patient care while supporting one another’s wellbeing.

Lawford Surgery are part of North Colchester PCN, working closely together sharing ARRS staff roles to support each surgery.

Benefits

• NHS Pension Scheme
• The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefits scheme
• Life insurance
• Family benefits including an adult dependents pension and children’s pension
• Ill health benefits
• 20% employer contribution

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.