Salaried GP Health Equalities Fellowship (12 month fixed contract)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post-holder will practice in accordance with accepted good medical practice and the various clinical policies of the Service, to include:

One non-clinical session per week for Health Equalities based project work / Personal CPD relating to the Health Equalities project.

The post-holder will make themself available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing 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 or external organisations

Assessing the health needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Contributing to QOF requirements and recording data appropriately

In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health related illnesses

Screening patients for health education

Admitting and discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Collecting data for audit purposes and contributing to the Practice audit programme as required

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribing in accordance with the accepted prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

Take a lead role in some aspects of the clinical work within the team, for example: co-ordinating aspects of governance, QOF, enhanced services, CPD and keeping clinical protocols up to date

In general the post holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care, as set by Royal College of General Practitioners, General Medical Council, all other Royal colleges and councils applicable to the staff within the practice, Department of Health, NHS England, OCCG and all other regulatory and standard setting organisations.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered GP with license to practise.

Desirable

• GMC Registered.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Severnside Medical Practice

Address

Quayside House

Quay Street

Gloucester

GL1 2TZ

Employer's website

https://www.severnsidemedicalpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)