Withnell Health Centre is recruiting a part-time salaried GP for its multidisciplinary team, a teaching practice of around 3,000 patients in a semi-rural area. The postholder works autonomously, providing medical care to the practice population under the GMS contract through surgery and telephone consultations, home visits, prescribing, referrals and daily results. The post runs four sessions a week, either Monday and Thursday or Tuesday and Friday. Applicants need full GMC registration, MRCGP and eligibility to practise independently in the UK.
What the job involves
- Provide autonomous medical services to the practice population to an excellent standard under the GMS contract
- Carry out surgery, telephone and home visit consultations in line with the practice timetable
- Assess undifferentiated problems, make clinical decisions and develop care plans with patients
- Review patients on the Practice Case Management List
- Screen for disease risk factors, give health education and refer to other care providers
- Issue computer-generated acute prescriptions, sign repeat prescriptions and prescribe to the formulary where clinically appropriate
- View and action pathology results daily, covering absent colleagues when needed
- Complete referrals, correspondence and the daily post, and carry out examinations and reports for the Benefits Agency and under the GMS contract
- Contribute to QOF and other agreed standards, audit and clinical standard setting
- Keep clear, contemporaneous consultation notes and collect data for audit
- Contribute to improvement projects, including CQC registration
- Comply with practice policies, including child protection, and commit to lifelong learning
What’s required
Qualifications
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration
- Continuous medical defence cover and inclusion on a Local Performers List
Experience
- Working in a primary care environment
- Continued professional development
- QOF, clinical audit and leading audit programmes
- Clinical risk management
Skills & knowledge
- Outstanding clinical knowledge and skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication with a clear, polite telephone manner
- Strong IT skills
- Working as a team member and autonomously
- Problem solving, analytical skills and following clinical policies and procedures
Checks & eligibility
- Eligibility to practise independently in the UK
Other
- Caring and compassionate
- Dynamic, creative and with a sense of humour
- Keen to learn, share learning and embrace new ways of working, innovation and quality improvement
Nice to have
- Experience of ICB initiatives and locally enhanced services
- EMIS user skills
What’s offered