Salaried GP Maternity Cover

The Methodist Church in Britain; Hawkesley; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

CPD leave

Study budget

MDD fees

Competitive salary

Education meetings

Shared working patterns

Job summary

The Dow Surgery is seeking a salaried GP to cover maternity leave for twelve months. The post offers four sessions per week at a single town-centre site, alongside GP partners, salaried doctors and nurses who teach students and trainees.

Active GMC registration and experience in a GP practice are essential, with opportunities to contribute to audit, teaching and clinical governance within a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Active GMC registration
• Experience in a GP practice
• Experience with vulnerable patients

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload and provide primary care across a wide range of health needs
• Attend surgery, telephone consultations and home visits
• Make autonomous clinical decisions within guidelines
• Record clear consultation notes and manage prescriptions
• Contribute to audit data and keep up with evidence-based practice
• Support teaching and supervision of students/trainees

Skills

GP experience

Primary care

Clinical decisions

Counselling

Education

GMC registration

Job description

This is a salaried GP post covering maternity leave at The Dow Surgery, a training practice with around 12,000 registered patients. The work is a 12-month temporary contract, four sessions a week, managing a caseload across a wide range of primary care health needs. The sessions fall on Mondays and Tuesdays at a single town-centre site, alongside a team of GP partners, salaried doctors and nurses who also teach students and trainees. Active GMC registration and experience in a GP practice are essential.

What the job involves

• Manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in primary care, to the highest standards for registered and temporary patients
• Attend surgery and telephone consultations and home visits, and deal with repeat prescription checks, queries, paperwork and correspondence to the practice timetable
• Make autonomous clinical decisions on presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred by colleagues
• Assess patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Develop care plans with patients in line with disease management protocols
• Provide counselling and health education
• Admit and discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers
• Record clear, contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, prescribing from the formulary or generically where clinically appropriate
• Collect audit data, contribute to clinical standard setting and keep up with evidence-based practice
• Contribute to computer-based patient records, including summarising records and read-coding patient data

What’s required

Registration & licences

• Active GMC registration

Experience

• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of working in a GP practice
• Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients

What’s offered

• 6 weeks annual leave pro rata
• 2 weeks paid CPD and study leave pro rata
• Study and course budget
• Full reimbursement of Medical Defence fees
• Competitive salary
• Monthly educational meetings
• Manageable, shared working patterns