Salaried GP

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Sheet; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Part time

Job summary

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board seeks a salaried GP to manage a patient list and provide clinical and administrative care in a primary care setting. The post involves 6 sessions per week with duty rosters and routine administrative time built into the day to ensure safe patient care.

You will make autonomous clinical decisions, assess undifferentiated patients, screen for risk factors, develop care plans, provide counselling, and handle prescriptions and reports as required.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate GP qualification and registration.
• Experience in primary care settings preferred.
• Ability to work autonomously within a GP practice.

Responsibilities

• Make professional, autonomous clinical decisions for presenting problems.
• Assess health care needs of undifferentiated patients.
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Develop care plans in consultation with patients.
• Provide counselling and health education.
• Record clear consultation notes to standards.
• Compile and issue computer-generated prescriptions.
• Prescribe within the practice formulary where appropriate.
• Contribute to Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and local initiatives.
• Complete medical reports as required.

Skills

Clinical decision-making

Patient assessment

Disease screening

Care planning

Counselling

Prescribing

Record keeping

Audit data

Formulary prescribing

Team collaboration

Medical reports

Job description

The post holder will be responsible for a patient list and will carry out all associated clinical and administrative work nationally associated and accepted as being part of managing a patient list. Salaried GPs at the practice undertake 10-minute appointments (although this can be changed to 15 minutes if required), part of the duty rota alongside dedicated administrative time built into the working day to support safe and effective patient care.,

• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, develop care plans for health
• Provide counselling and health education
• Admit or discharge patients to and from the caseload referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collect data for audit purposes
• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribe in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
• Contribute to the attainment of all quality indicators (QOF) and any local or national initiative that the practice takes part in
• Complete insurance and other medical reports as required
• Generally, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all normal clinical duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

This is a 6 sessions per week vacancy and you would hold a patient list as well as covering duty lists.

We are looking for this post to commence December 2026. The population we serve is diverse is predominantly an affluent area. We achieve highly at the Quality and Outcomes Framework each year, seek out new opportunities and are the host practice for the East Hants PCN. We have approximately 32 members of staff and are a highly regarded training practice welcoming GP trainees, F2 doctors and medical students.

Salary and benefits package will be competitive.