Salaried GP

West Park Surgery; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A respected medical practice in Nottingham is seeking a salaried GP to join a supportive clinical team. This position offers opportunities for professional development and partnership aspirations, alongside responsibilities such as assessing patient needs, developing care plans, and ensuring quality care. Applicants should be fully qualified GPs with strong communication skills and experience in multidisciplinary settings.

Benefits

Support from a large clinical team

Mentorship for career development

Opportunities for partnership

Qualifications

• Fully qualified GP with experience in telephone triage and home visiting.
• Proven track record of delivering QOF and knowledge of GP contracts.
• Ability to lead in clinical areas, maintain CPD for appraisal.

Responsibilities

• Assessing patients' health care needs and developing care plans.
• Providing counselling and health education to patients.
• Recording clear consultation notes and managing prescriptions.

Skills

Telephone triage

Home visiting

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team

Excellent time management skills

Education

GMC full registration

Higher postgraduate qualifications

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Practice as asalaried GP. We are looking for 6 sessions. We are anestablished training practice with consistently high QOF achievement. Weencourage innovation in developing new models of care. You will enjoy supportfrom a large clinical team, and dedicated management colleagues. All SalariedGPs are allocated a Mentor. For those who have partnership aspirations, weoffer routes to partnership and have a unique development programme. We willprovide you with the high-quality support you need to continue developing yourskills, spend quality time with your patients and make a real difference topeoples lives whilst obtaining job satisfaction.

Main duties of the job

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, thepost-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties,including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, RapidHealth, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptionsand dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers within theorganisation. Full list in the job description attached.

About us

The West Park Surgery is an Outstanding CQC rating at theLong Eaton Health Centre site and at the branch site of Park View MedicalCentre. We are a secure, successful and forward looking practice. The GPPartners hold key leadership positions in the PCN and the ICS and can provide awealth of opportunity and experience to other members of the team. The practiceis heavily involved in supporting and developing PCN services across the wholeof Erewash.

We are part of Erewash Health Partnership and have access toa wide range of networked services including home visiting, care home supportteam, pharmacists, social prescribers and first contact physios. We offer allcore services as well as minor surgery and contraceptive services.

Education remains an important part of the ethos of thepractice, and we train registrars, medical students, non-medical prescribers aswell as supporting apprentices from the local community. This culture ofcontinuous improvement and development is core to who we are. Regular clinicalmeetings across both sites, network learning events and an allocated mentormean that we create a safe and supportive environment.

Job responsibilities

Assessing the health care needs of patients withundifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signsof illness

Developing care plans for health in consultation withpatients and in line with current practice disease management protocols

Providing counselling and health education

Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseloadand referring to other care providers as appropriate

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes toagreed standards

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeatprescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribingformulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertakeall the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working withinprimary care

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practicepolicies / guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection,health and safety

A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensureevidence-based best practice

Contributing to evaluation / audit and clinical standardsetting within the organisation

Contributing to the development of computer-based patientrecords

Contributing to the summarising of patient records andread-coding patient data

Attending training and events organised by the practice, PCNor other agencies, where appropriate

Person Specification

Experience

• Telephone triage. Home visiting. Experience of working as duty doctor. Fully qualified GP.
• Medical education. Proven track record of delivering QOF. Higher postgraduate qualifications.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of GP contracts/enhanced services/QOF. Knowledge and completion of CPD to remain up to date with GP appraisal/revalidation. Excellent Communication skills. Ability to listen empathise. Ability to work/lead as part of a multidisciplinary team. Thorough understanding of clinical governance. Keyboard skills and computer literacy. Able to work under pressure. Self-motivated and positive. Recognises own limits and acts appropriately. Excellent time management skills. Experience of multidisciplinary working. GMC full registration. Currently on a performers list.
• Knowledge of local agendas in respect to primary care. Knowledge and understanding of PCN. Specialist interests. Ability to lead in clinical areas/QOF/ES domains within practice. Enhanced skills eg joint injections, minor surgery, education, family health etc. Experience of SystmOne.

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.