Salaried Gp

SSP Health Ltd; Wigan; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension contribution

Development opportunities

38 days leave incl bank holidays

Job summary

SSP Health Ltd in the North West region is recruiting a Salaried GP to join our growing group of GP surgeries. You will provide clinical care within a supportive, established team and benefit from a competitive salary, annual leave, and access to the NHS pension scheme.

This role offers flexible shift patterns, opportunities for cross-site work, development opportunities for special interests, and a pathway to leadership within our centralised hub.

Qualifications

• MRCGP is required; full GMC registration is essential.
• National Performers List registration is required.
• Current UK registration to practice in general practice.

Responsibilities

• Undertake a variety of clinical duties including consultations and patient care.
• Work across GP practice with support from a strong team.
• Adhere to NHS pension scheme and practice policies.
• Engage in professional development and service improvement.
• Ensure accurate record keeping and patient safety.
• Participate in cross-site collaboration where required.

Education

MRCGP

GMC registration

National Performers List registration

Job description

Job summary

We currently have an exciting and flexible opportunity to join our pioneering and growing group of GP surgeries. A vacancy has arisen for us to recruit a Salaried GP to our Practice team. If you are a GP who is keen to work with fully established team, focused on providing the best patient care possible, then we would like to meet you! We can offer a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement, access to the NHS pension scheme and development opportunities. As the biggest provider of GP services in the North West, we currently have 40+ surgery locations all rated as good or outstanding with CQC. SSP Health cares for over 155,000 patients. We pioneered groups of practices, and associated centralised function, almost 20 years ago, allowing us to innovate to both improve patient care and enhance the wellbeing of our GPs. We are in the process of creating a centralised administrative hub which will allow us to further centralise, removing the day-to-day administrative burden from our GPs.

Main duties of the job

• Flexible shift patterns to include starting early or later to suit you
• Opportunity for additional work & overtime
• Opportunity to work cross site
• Development opportunities for those keen to develop special interests
• NHS PENSION contribution
• 38 days leave inc bank holidays (pro rata)

About us

If you join SSP Health, you will be providing clinical care in a strong, friendly team with other healthcare professionals including pharmacists and ANPs as well as working collaboratively as part of the PCNs we are involved in. We also have highly-efficient admin teams and central support that allows our doctors to focus on what they trained to do treat and care for patients. There are opportunities for leadership without the full responsibility of partnerships. The successful applicant will be fully qualified, be motivated to provide excellent patient care and want to develop clinical services within the practice. We want to hear from newly qualified GPs as well as experienced doctors with skills to deliver enhanced services.

Job responsibilities

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self 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
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
• 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.

Other responsibilities within the organisation

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Qualifications

• MRCGP
• Full GMC registration
• National Performers List registration

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.