Salaried GP

Job description

Job responsibilities

In accordance with the practice timetable, 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 signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion

Providing a minimum of 1 Duty Doctor session per week until 6:30pm

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

Collecting data for audit purposes

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

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCGP or equivalent qualification.
• Current GMC registration on GP list at time of application.
• Be on, or eligible for inclusion on a performers list.

Experience

Essential

• Broad knowledge of Primary Care and fit with the wider clinical community.
• Ability to apply sound clinical knowledge and handle uncertainty, using judgement to refer patients appropriately.
• Ability to work successfully in a multi professional/disciplinary team and across organisational boundaries as well as autonomously.
• Ability to appraise own performance, demonstrate insight and act on feedback.
• IT skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to manage own time and workload.

Desirable

• Experience of under graduate and postgraduate teaching and training.
• Experience of working in primary care.
• Experience of EMIS Web clinical system.

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.

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

Great Eccleston Health Centre

Address

Raikes Road

Great Eccleston

Preston

PR3 0ZA

Employer's website

https://www.greateccleston.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)