Senior General Practitioner - Primary Care Leader

NHS Jobs; Coventry; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS Jobs Coventry office is seeking a Salaried General Practitioner to manage a diverse caseload in a busy primary care setting, delivering high standards of care to registered and temporary patients.

The post comprises six sessions with a mix of surgery and telephone consultations, home visits, and prescribing duties, emphasising autonomous decision-making, audit, and adherence to confidentiality and data protection policies.

Responsibilities

• Manages a caseload and provides a wide range of health care in a primary care setting.
• Performs surgery consultations, telephone consultations and home visits as required.
• Checks and signs repeat prescriptions and handles queries, paperwork and correspondence promptly.
• Makes autonomous clinical decisions in relation to presenting problems.
• Assesses health care needs of patients with undifferentiated problems and screens for disease risk factors.
• Develops care plans in collaboration with patients following current practice protocols.
• Provides counselling and health education to patients.
• Admits or discharges patients from the caseload and refers to other providers as appropriate.
• Records clear, contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards and contributes to audits.
• Compiles computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions and prescribes in line with formulary.

Job description

The NHS Jobs Coventry office is seeking a Salaried General Practitioner to manage a diverse caseload in a busy primary care setting, delivering high standards of care to registered and temporary patients.

The post comprises six sessions with a mix of surgery and telephone consultations, home visits, and prescribing duties, emphasising autonomous decision-making, audit, and adherence to confidentiality and data protection policies.