Salaried Gp

Wolverhampton Road Surgery; Stafford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wolverhampton Road Surgery in Stafford is seeking a salaried GP to join a supportive and friendly team for 6 sessions a week. You may be an experienced GP or recently qualified, and you will deliver high quality patient care across the practice.

Duties include consultations, home visits, prescribing, managing chronic disease, and contributing to audits within a busy primary care setting. UK registration and GMC compliance required.

Qualifications

• Qualified GP with full registration and current UK practice
• Experience in primary care settings preferred
• Ability to work autonomously within a supportive team

Responsibilities

• Surgery consultations and telephone consultations as per timetable
• Home visits, prescription management and timely record keeping
• Develop care plans and participate in audits and quality improvement

Skills

Clinical governance

Patient care

Team player

Education

Full GMC registration

Royal College of General Practitioners membership

Performer list status

Job description

Job summary

Wolverhampton Road Surgery are looking for a salaried GP to join their supportive and friendly team for 6 sessions a week.

You may be an experienced GP or a recently qualified one.

But if you are eager and motivated to deliver excellent patient care to our patient population then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

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 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

Collecting data for audit purposes

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

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

In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

About us

Wolverhampton Road Surgery is a forward thinking training practice located in Stafford

We provide care for patients from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care.

Dealing with acute and chronic conditions in a variety of different types of clinics - telephone, face to face and home visits.

Our patients are at the heart of all our decisions.

Job responsibilities

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 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

Collecting data for audit purposes

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

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

In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Qualifications

• Qualified GP with full registration
• Vocational Training Certificate or Equivalent
• Member of recognised defence union
• Currently on performers list
• Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners

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.