Salaried GP

Hathaway Medical Centre; Marshfield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hathaway Medical Centre in Chippenham is seeking a GP to join as a salaried doctor for 4 to 6 sessions per week. The role supports special interests and offers a friendly, progressive team with a collaborative ethos.

The practice is training with ST2/ST3 registrars and a strong leadership and admin team, providing protected admin time and opportunities to contribute to quality improvement and patient-centred care.

Qualifications

• Qualified GP or due to qualify in next few months.

Responsibilities

• Undertake face-to-face, telephone and video consultations with patients.
• Assess, diagnose and manage a wide range of acute and chronic conditions.
• Prescribe medications appropriately and review patient medication regimes.
• Refer patients to secondary and community care services as clinically appropriate.
• Conduct routine health checks, screening and disease prevention activities.
• Maintain accurate, confidential patient records.
• Collaborate with nursing and allied health staff to provide patient-centred care.
• Participate in regular clinical meetings and quality improvement activities.

Skills

GP qualification

Job description

Are you looking for a 4 to 6 session salaried GP role? We have an excitingopportunity to welcome another GP to our experienced and supportiveteam.

Main duties of the job

We are a training practice with one ST2 and two ST3's with us throughout the year.

As well as this being a salaried GP role, we also encourage specialisms and would support special interest areas as much as we can.

About us

• Our purpose-built practice is based in Chippenham over 2 sites, 14 miles from the City of Bath, on the edge of the Cotswolds, with easy access to the M4.
• We pride ourselves on providing high quality, patient-centred care with a strong team-working ethos.

Friendly, progressive and flexible.

• Protected weekly administration time for all GPs - allocation of time dependent on sessions worked
• Encouragement to develop areas of interest in line with the practice needs, to include the supervision/training or medical students.
• Bi-monthly practice clinical meeting and regular CPD sessions.
• Geared towards reducing GP workload with support from an experienced and dedicated Leadership and admin team that includes Medical Secretaries and a Data/Workflow team.
• A range of clinical support staff including an experienced Nurse Team, Advanced Paramedic Practitioners, Health Care Assistants and Phlebotomists.
• Training practice.
• This is not a Retainer or Fellowship GP role.
• Actively part of the strong and cohesive Chippenham, Corsham and Box Primary Care Network (PCN) circa 60,000 patients.
• Expanding PCN employed staff, currently including First Contact Physiotherapists, a Clinical Pharmacy team and a Living Well Team including Social Prescribers and Care Coordinators.

Job responsibilities

Key Job duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Care

Undertake face-to-face, telephone, video and online consultations with patients.

Assess, diagnose, manage and treat a wide range of acute and chronic conditions in line with current clinical guidelines.

Prescribe medications appropriately and review patient medication regimes regularly.

Refer patients to secondary and community care services as clinically appropriate.

Perform routine health checks, screening and disease prevention activities.

Organise and interpret investigation results and follow up as required.

Administration & Documentation

Maintain accurate, timely and confidential patient records in accordance with NHS and Practice guidelines and policy.

Action clinical correspondence and administrative tasks (e.g. referrals, results, prescription requests).

Team Contribution

Work collaboratively with nursing, paramedics, allied health and administrative staff, Data, Prescriptions and Operations Teams.

Participate in regular clinical meetings, practice development and quality improvement activities.

Contribute to achieving practice targets (such as QOF) where agreed.

Buddy with other GPs to support and provide cover during annual leave and planned absences.

Undertake any other reasonable duties consistent with the role of a Salaried GP.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified GP or due to qualify in the next few months to agreed start date post reg.

Experience

• Experience of assessing, diagnosing and managing a wide range of acute and chronic conditions.
• Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients, including those with complex health, social, or safeguarding needs.
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team, including nursing and allied health professionals.
• Experience of safe prescribing and medicines management.

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.