Salaried Gp

Farnham Road Practice; Slough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Farnham Road Medical Group (FRMG) in Slough is seeking an experienced GP to join our team of nine salaried GPs and twelve GP Partners. Based at Farnham Road, you may travel to our other Slough sites to participate in clinical meetings and service development, with a duty rota from 08.00 to 18.30.

You will provide the full range of NHS General Practice services, including consultations, diagnosis, treatment, referrals, and prescribing, while contributing to high-quality patient care across four

Qualifications

• Registered and licensed to practice with the GMC.
• Cited on Medical Performers List.
• A minimum of 2 years experience as a practising GP.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team and perform effectively under pressure.
• Highly motivated with excellent consultation skills.
• Excellent timekeeping with a commitment to providing high-quality care.

Responsibilities

• Provide the full range of NHS General/Primary Medical Services to registered patients, including clinical examination, diagnosis, treatment and referral as appropriate.
• Make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and triage, video and electronic message consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, on-call/duty work, and extended hours sessions.
• Check and sign prescriptions and manage queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion including EPS and repeat prescriptions.
• Prepare and maintain patient records with clear and contemporaneous notes; ensure compliance with practice policies for coding and recording information.
• Prescribe in accordance with the practice or local prescribing formulary (or generically) when clinically appropriate.
• Admit or discharge patients to/from caseload and refer to other care providers as necessary.

Job description

Job summary

We are looking for a motivated and experienced GP to join our team. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as the opportunity to work in a supportive and collaborative environment, with a diverse committed workforce from different ethnic backgrounds ensuring the quality of our services to our patients are to a high standard.

You will be part of a team of nine salaried GPs, who along with twelve GP Partners, are responsible for providing the full range of NHS General/Primary Medical services to our patients across all our four sites. This will include providing consultations, diagnosis, treatment, referral as appropriate, and prescribing medication. You would be based at Farnham Road Practice but, be expected to travel to our other sites within Slough, to be involved in the wider running of the practice, such as participating in clinical meetings and contributing to the development of new services. As part of the role on rota dependant basis, you will be expected to be part of the duty team which involves a finishing time of 6.30pm and triaging patients that starts from 08.00am. The full job description and Person Specification for the role are attached.

Main duties of the job

• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.


• To promote and maintain optimum health of the registered patient population of FRMG by identifying, planning, and undertaking specific health promotional activities with identified individuals and target groups to improve their health and facilitate further service development.


• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including:


• surgery consultations, telephone consultations and triage, video & electronic message consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, on-call/duty work, extended hours sessions.


• checking and signing prescriptions


• dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required in a timely fashion including but not limited to:


• Electronic Prescription Services (EPS)


• Checking and signing of repeat prescriptions (where EPS does not apply)


• Safeguarding reports


• Dealing with EMIS queries/tasks


• Patient medical reports and examinations (e.g., for insurance companies)


• Prescribing in accordance with the practice or local prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.

About us

Farnham Road Medical Group (FRMG) started as one Practice with two sites and has grown over the years into an outstanding group of training GP practices that are approved by Health Education England. With four clinical sites based in Slough, we now have a team of over 100 people looking after 38,000 patients. The practice is committed to innovation in providing high-quality health care for our patients and a protected working and learning environment for our staff. Our team includes pharmacists, nurses, physician associates, paramedics, MSK practitioners, Mental Health Practitioners, managers, social prescribers, and care coordinators as well as GPs and a large Patient Services team. This resolute team provides an evolving healthcare and medical service to meet the varying needs of our patients and, in turn, provides what we believe is a sustainable model of modern General Practice. We have expanded our expertise and have transformed how we provide medical services to try to ensure we meet the demands of Sloughs diverse population.
Our vision is simple: Putting Patients First and providing services that tailor to their needs, which we strive to achieve through brilliant leadership, mentoring, teamwork, communication, problem sharing and solving, support, integrity, fun, training, education, and continued development.

Job responsibilities

To provide the full range of NHS General/Primary Medical Services to the patients registered to the Farnham Road Medical Group (FRMG), temporary residents and patients presenting for immediately necessary treatment including clinical examination, diagnosis, treatment and referral as appropriate.

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including:


• surgery consultations, telephone consultations and triage, video & electronic message consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, on-call/duty work, extended hours sessions.


• checking and signing prescriptions.


• dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required in a timely fashion including but not limited to:


• Electronic Prescription Services (EPS).


• Checking and signing of repeat prescriptions (where EPS does not apply).


• Safeguarding reports.


• Dealing with EMIS queries/tasks.


• Patient medical reports and examinations (e.g. for insurance companies).


• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.


• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.


• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.


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


• To promote and maintain optimum health of the registered patient population of FRMG by identifying, planning and undertaking specific health promotional activities with identified individuals and target groups in order to improve their health and facilitate further service development.


• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.


• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards including following the practice policies for coding and recording information.


• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.


• Prescribing in accordance with the practice or local prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered and licenced to practice with the GMC.


• Cited on Medical Performers List


• Excellent clinical knowledge and an understanding of GP clinical IT systems is desirable.


• A minimum of 2 years experience as a practising GP.


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team and perform effectively under pressure.


• To be highly motivated with excellent consultation skills.


• Excellent timekeeping with a commitment to providing high-quality care.

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.

UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.