Salaried GP West End Medical Centre

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board; Colwyn Bay; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health board in North Wales is seeking talented GPs to join their multi-disciplinary team at West End Medical Centre in Colwyn Bay. This role offers flexible working hours and opportunities for professional development within a supportive environment, ensuring high-quality patient care and community services. Situated close to beautiful countryside and good transport links, it’s an inviting place for both work and life.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Great relocation package

Qualifications

• Must hold full GMC registration.
• Experience in general practice required.
• Eligible for Medical Performers List.
• Ability to speak Welsh is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conduct surgery consultations and manage patient care.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions based on emerging issues.
• Participate in health promotion and community health initiatives.

Skills

Effective counselling and communication skills

Good IT proficiency

Commitment to team approach and multi-disciplinary working

Ability to handle a busy and varied primary care caseload

Education

Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise

Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General Practice

Evidence of continuous professional development

Job description

GPs - are you looking for a new salaried position? To work in a beautiful location, with excellent commuter links, and a great relocation package to bring you here?

We have GP Vacancies our Health Board Practice, West End Medical Centre, in Conwy County

West end Medical Centre is situated in Colwyn Bay, with a list size of 18,400 patients. Newly merged from to Practices within the same building, West End Medical Centre is focused on delivering a social model of care and has a multi-Disciplinary team including GPs, Nurses, Physiotherapists and Pharmacists. The practice is also moving towards recruitment of other health care professionals such as Advanced Practice Paramedics and Physicians Associates.

Main duties of the job

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

In accordance with an agreed practice timetable, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone, video, and email consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, providing advice to other colleagues, and dealing with queries, paperwork, referrals and correspondence in a timely manner.

Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, including undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation, with due reference to best practice and evidence based guidelines.

Screen patients for disease risk factors, early signs of illness and promote public health interventions.

Admit or discharging patients to and from the active caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.

Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.

Collect data for audit purposes.

About us

The Location:

Conwy County and Colwyn Bay both have a variety of independent coffee shops and bars and is close to the town of Llandudno with a good range of retail stores and a theatre and conference centre. Its coastal location also means that within minutes you can be in the countryside and heading to the Snowdonia National Park. There are also good road and rail links to Chester, Manchester and Liverpool. This family friendly town is close to a number of great state and independent schools, and the University Health Board has links with the two local Universities in Bangor and Wrexham (Glyndwr University).

Why Should You Apply?

• Opportunity to be involved in developing the practice's services.
• Flexible working hours, with full, part time and portfolio applications welcomed.
• Opportunities to develop professionally.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find a full job description and person specification within the additional documents section of the advert. You can also find a full GP Information pack.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Flexible approach
• Motivated and efficient
• Commitment to learn and best practice

General

Essential

• Satisfactory Immigration Status
• Satisfactory Health Clearance
• Satisfactory Disclosure Check
• Valid Driving License
• Car owner

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise and entry on the GP Register
• Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General Practice / Certificate Confirming Eligibility for General Practice Registration (CEGPR), or equivalent
• Included on a Medical Performers List or eligible
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

• MRCGP
• Academic excellence (prizes, merits, distinctions etc.)

Experience

Essential

• Experience in general practice and working in multi-disciplinary team
• Vocational GP training

Desirable

• Eligibility for minor surgery, obstetrics, family planning accreditation

Skills and Knowledge Ability

Essential

• Proven ability to handle a busy and varied primary care caseload and respond flexibly to workload fluctuations
• Ability to take independent clinical decisions when necessary and to seek advice from senior doctors as appropriate
• Commitment to team approach and multi-disciplinary working
• Effective counselling and communication skills
• Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance
• Commitment to participating in and understanding of the management process
• Good IT proficiency
• Ability to develop and sustain relationships with a wide range of individuals and within groups
• Ability to work across organisations to deliver a common objective
• Ability to draft letters, reports and protocols in a timely manner

Desirable

• Audit
• Research interests relevant to post
• Teaching / Training experience
• Ability to speak Welsh

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