Salaried GP

Job summary

Brookside Group Practice is an innovative, forward thinking, large, 4 site practice working together as Earley + Primary Care Network, which manages approximately 31,000 patients. Our team of around 130 people includes many allied health professionals, including a thriving health and wellbeing team helping to address patients mental and emotional wellbeing needs alongside our doctors, physician associates and MIND services, MSK practitioners, pharmacists, paramedics, nurses, healthcare assistants, support, and administration staff.

We are looking for a an enthusiastic and proactive GP to join our multi-disciplinary team for 5 sessions per week.

Key points to consider in being part of our team:

Strong team ethos underpinned by Christian values - Practice supports social and sports events

4 appointments per hour

No duty doctor- overflow each day managed by a shared team of GPs and AHPs

Innovative supervisory GP model for acute and routine care

Home visits largely conducted by paramedics

Regular teaching from external consultants and a doctors meeting protected as CPD with lunch provided

What we are looking for:

Motivated individuals with a positive, proactive approach to general practice

Ability to work as part of a team and sharing the workload with colleagues

Ability to manage clinical uncertainty and risk in own clinical practice and whilst potentially supervising a team of allied health professionals

Main duties of the job

• Provide medical services for the practice population to a high standard, including day-to-day activities such as surgery consultations, telephone advice, telephone consultations and home visits and appropriate administration to ensure accurate records, patient continuity and quality of care.
• Comply with the requirements of the practices General Medical Services/Personal Medical Services (GMS/PMS) (17c) contract, Enhanced Services contracts, educational/training delivery contracts and private contracts.
• Adhere to the principles of good medical practice.

About us

The Practice serves approximately 31,000 patients from our 4 surgeries in Earley, Lower Earley, Winnersh and Wilderness Road.

Due to our size, we value communication and teamwork. We operate a strongly relational team structure and endeavour to listen well, encourage ownership and involvement and enable staff to grow in their individual development. We, therefore, spend a lot of time investing in team meetings and communication across the organisation. We are a member of Berkshire West Clinical Commissioning Group.

We recently won the HSJ (Health Services Journal) Digital Award for our innovative work we've done to refine our triage processes and model of care.

Other key aspects of the Practice include:

Use of Anima to aid triage/consultation

Strong IT and systems including Emis Web, Accu-Rx, DXS, Docman

Longstanding Training Practice with GP registrars, Physician associate trainees and others

Opportunities for clinical leadership and development

Specialist gynaecological, dermatology and physio services on site

Our own Primary Care Network, serving 31,000 patients

High Achieving QOF and highly successful PCN