Salaried GP

Beechfield Medical Centre; Spalding; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tier 2 Sponsorship

Job summary

Beechfield Medical Centre in Spalding, Lincolnshire, is inviting applications for a salaried GP to join a well-established, patient-centred practice serving around 22,000 patients.

The post holder will manage a caseload in a primary care setting, delivering consultations, home visits and medicines management, with 15-minute appointments and emphasis on high-quality care and continuous improvement. Sponsorship available for eligible candidates.

Qualifications

• Qualified GP with CCT or equivalent JCPTGP.
• MRCGP certification.
• Experience in primary care.
• Minimum of two years as a salaried GP.
• Experience with medicines management.
• Knowledge of CCG initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, and home visits.
• Check and sign repeat prescriptions and deal with queries, paperwork and correspondence.
• Adhere to the 15-minute appointment slot per patient.
• Make professional autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems.
• Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collect data for audit purposes.
• Prescribe in accordance with the Practice formulary.
• Provide counselling and health education.
• Admit or discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers as appropriate.

Skills

Continued professional development

QOF & clinical audit

Primary care experience

Salaried GP experience

Medicines management

CCG initiatives

Education

GP qualification

CCT (UK)

MRCGP

VT Certificate / JCPTGP

Job description

The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range ofhealth needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of carefor all registered and temporary patients.

Beechfield Medical Centre can offer a Tier 2 Sponsorship.

Main duties of the job

• Inaccordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder willmake themselves available to undertake a variety of duties includingsurgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visitingpatients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealingwith queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• The practice allows 15 minutes per appointment.
• Beechfield Medical Centre has a morning break where all clinicans are invited to come to together as a chance to connect.

About us

Beechfield Medical Centre is a well-established and highly regarded GP practice based in the heart of the Lincolnshire market town of Spalding, operating from modern purpose built premises. We are looking to appoint several new team members as we look to develop and enhance the services we are able to offer to our nearly 22,000 patients.

Beechfield is aVeteran Friendly Practice, a Learning Disability Friendly Practice with GOLDstatus, and was the first practice in Lincolnshire to achieve GOLD statusthrough the Lincolnshire People Promise Trailblazer programme. We are alsoproud to be a Menopause Friendly workplace.

The Practicehas also achieved a 93% score through the 5 Star Quality Award, alongsidenumerous local and regional awards and nominations for our teams and individualcolleagues.

Theseachievements are something to celebrate, but they are not the end goal. Theyreflect the culture we want to maintain: inclusive, supportive, ambitious andcontinually improving.

Job responsibilities

• Inaccordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder willmake themselves available to undertake a variety of duties includingsurgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visitingpatients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealingwith queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems,whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within theorganisation
• Assessingthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems
• Screeningpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Inconsultation with patients and in line with current Practice diseasemanagement protocols, developing care plans for health
• Providingcounselling and health education
• Admittingor discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to othercare providers as appropriate
• Recordingclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collectingdata for audit purposes
• Compilingand issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribingin accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically)whenever this is clinically appropriate
• Ingeneral the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normalduties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primarycare.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of continued professional development
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit
• Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Minimum of two years as a salaried GP
• Experience of medicines management
• Experience of CCG initiatives

Qualifications

• Qualified GP
• General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)
• MRCGP
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP

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.