Salaried GP Maternity cover with potential permanent position

NHS Jobs; Twickenham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Twickenham is seeking a Salaried GP for maternity cover with the potential for a permanent position. The role focuses on providing comprehensive primary care with autonomy to manage a diverse caseload, including acute and chronic conditions, in a community setting.

The post involves standard GP duties such as consulting in clinics, conducting telephone triage, and coordinating with the practice team to deliver high-quality patient care.

Responsibilities

• Surgery consultations and telephone consultations to address patient concerns
• Home visits and management of repeat prescriptions and queries
• Documenting encounters and decisions; reading coding and updating patient records
• Ensuring compliance with practice policies, confidentiality, data protection and safety guidelines
• Supporting audit, continued professional development and service improvement in primary care

Job description

Salaried GP Maternity cover with potential permanent position

Clinical responsibilities: In accordance with the practice appointment schedule, 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 authorising 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 Undertaking audits as required Compiling and issuing repeat prescriptions 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 Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data Taking a lead on mutually agreed with the Practice responsibilities that are contractual or an additional service provided by the Practice Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate and completing mandatory (and additional voluntary) e-learning modules relevant to the post.