Salaried GP

Island City Practice; Southsea, Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A progressive healthcare provider in Southsea is seeking a Salaried GP to join their innovative team. This role offers a blend of chronic and acute work, utilizing a modern triage system. Applicants must possess GMC registration and recent GP experience in the UK. The practice emphasizes teamwork and provides a supportive environment, making it ideal for professionals looking to enhance their careers in a vibrant area. Competitive remuneration and a commitment to continual professional development are key aspects of this position.

Qualifications

• Recent experience of working in general practice in the UK.
• Evidence of independent working in General Practice.
• Experience of supporting service change.

Responsibilities

• Undertake surgery and telephone consultations as per practice timetable.
• Make professional decisions related to patient health needs.
• Develop care plans in consultation with patients.

Skills

Excellent verbal and communication skills

Understanding health and social needs

Fully conversant with SystmOne

Commitment to personal and professional development

Education

Fully qualified GP with GMC registration

Job description

We are offering an opportunity to apply for a Salaried GPPosition at Island City Practice (ICP). We require 4-8 sessions and offercompetitive remuneration rates. Our practice aims to be Innovative, Caring andProfessional.

ICP is a friendly and supportive environment for GPs toPractice safely and effectively with a manageable and sustainable workload. ThePractice has embraced a Modern General Practice approach that effectively triagesdemand and embraces care delivered by a multiprofessional team.

Main duties of the job

We offer a dynamic mix of chronic and acute work, usingAnima alongside SystmOne for our triage system.

GPs at the practice work in small GP teams and hold theirown personalised list. This gives balances continuity of care but with thestability and resilience of working in a larger practice.

Our Triage Team is multidisciplinary, including GPs,Advanced Nursing and Paramedic Practitioners for same day care. In addition toroutine GP clinics, we run a highly organised nurse led chronic disease serviceand offer excellent Treatment room care. We have a fully developed PCN ARRS teamincluding Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, Social Prescribers,First Contact Physiotherapy, Mental Health Facilitators and an OccupationalTherapist.

About us

Island City Practice is an innovative, friendly and forwardthinking surgery located in the fascinating Historic Naval City Of Portsmouthon the South Coast. Where we lead others follow. General Practice is changingat pace and we see this positively and as an exciting opportunity.

Our list size is c.37,000 patients. We are a trainingpractice and work from three modern purpose built sites in central Portsmouth.We are the lead practice for Island City Network.

Job responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

• ln 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 queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion;
• 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;
• Providing counselling and health education;
• 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;
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding handwritten prescriptions whenever possible);
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate;
• ln general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Person Specification

Experience

• Recent experience of working in general practice in the UK.
• Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary and skill mixed team environment.
• Evidence of independent working in General Practice.
• Experience of supporting service change.
• Evidence of participation in Audit.
• Evidence of participation in QOF.

Skills & Abilities

• Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient population.
• Committed to personal and professional development.
• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Fully conversant with SystmOne.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified GP with GMC registration and licence to practice.

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.