Job summary
Our welcoming and friendly practice is looking for a salaried GP. We are looking for someone to work 6 sessions, who will work well in our fantastic team and whose focus is giving the best care to patients.
Well-being is important to us and has led to regular team-building activities as diverse as a sunflower growing competition, pumpkin carving and lunchtime exercise sessions. We have achieved a Healthy Living Practice award and have a Pride in Practice Gold award for LGBT+ care. We particularly value excellent end of life care and advance care planning.
We will support you to develop your skills. We work hard as a teaching practice and have one Educational Supervisor, and two other GPs are in training. In the past we have supported GPs to attend the HENW Professional Educational Development course. We have trained a PCN pharmacist to become an independent prescriber and support others on their primary care course.
We have a great working relationship with our PCN partners and are lucky to work in a well-led PCN that offers fantastic services to patients. We achieved a Good CQC rating at our last inspection.
If this opportunity sounds like something you are looking for then we would love to hear from you.
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.
We
welcome applicants who have a particular interest in women's health and menopause care including HRT, contraception coils, implants and injections,
removals and insertions.
We will treat you fairly, value your contribution and make you feel part of the team. We use our daily coffee catchups after clinic to debrief and support each other. You will take part in the weekday on-call rota.
About us
We are a friendly 4 partner Training Practice in South Manchester, offering excellent care for patients, training doctors for the future.
We take ST3s, ST2s, FY2s and Medical Students.
We have a dynamic and hardworking team lead by our Practice Manager, a full complement of Nurses, HCAs, Admin and Reception staff.
List size - 6700
GMS Practice running EMIS
Continuing Excellent QOF results
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
- In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the
post-holder will make him/her-self 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
- Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated
and undiagnosed problems.
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of
illness.
- In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease
management protocols, developing care plans for health.
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat
prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
- Prescribing in accordance with the Practice / Local Area Team / ICB prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically
appropriate.
- Providing counselling and health education.
- Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and
referring to other care providers as appropriate.
- Maintain accurate, and contemporaneous and correctly coded
consultation notes to relevant and Practice standards and guidelines.
- Work alongside clinical and administrative colleagues in ensuring
the highest standard of care for all Practice patients, including covering
for absent colleagues.
- Collecting data for audit purposes.
- Work supportively alongside clinical and administrative colleagues
ensuring the highest standard of care for all Practice Patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
- In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the
post-holder will make him/her-self 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
- Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated
and undiagnosed problems.
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of
illness.
- In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease
management protocols, developing care plans for health.
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat
prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
- Prescribing in accordance with the Practice / Local Area Team / ICB prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically
appropriate.
- Providing counselling and health education.
- Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and
referring to other care providers as appropriate.
- Maintain accurate, and contemporaneous and correctly coded
consultation notes to relevant and Practice standards and guidelines.
- Work alongside clinical and administrative colleagues in ensuring
the highest standard of care for all Practice patients, including covering
for absent colleagues.
- Collecting data for audit purposes.
- Work supportively alongside clinical and administrative colleagues
ensuring the highest standard of care for all Practice Patients.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified or Newly qualified GP
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified or Newly qualified GP
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).