Salaried GP - 4 to 8 Sessions

Job summary

4-8 Session Salaried GP Required

(working days must include a Monday and Friday)

An exciting opportunity has arisen due to an increase in our List size for an enthusiastic GP to join our friendly, well-organised, forward-thinking practice based in central Reading. We are looking for either a newly qualified or experienced GP for a minimum of 4 sessions per week (up to a maximum of 8) to join our team.

Reading is a lovely town and is on the commuter belt to London (50 mins via train) and is very commutable to Henley, Ascot & Windsor. We are situated in Broad Street Mall in a new modern premises right in the centre of the town.

NHS Pension

6-week's annual leave plus bank holiday allowance

1-week of study leave allowance

Comprehensive induction and mentoring/ development through our competency framework for GPs.

Hopefully our advert reflects this opportunity fully, including the highly competitive salary and flexible working environment in which you can develop your own portfolio and interests.

If you would like to arrange an informal chat or visit to the practice, please send your CV to Elena.Orr1@nhs.net or call the surgery and ask to speak to Dr Bu Thava.

Main duties of the job

Defined Workload per session (the job plan will be agreed based on experience) including:-

o 16 patients per session

o Management of own self-generated administration (including own path/docman)

o Fixed share of lab and pathology reports (maximum 20 per day)

o Fixed share of maximum 15 Docman

Fair share of home visiting (noting that this is a low visiting practice, with less than two visits per month)

We strongly believe in developing our salaried GPs and encourage portfolio working. Our GPs (both Salaried and Partners) have lead and other active roles within the PCN, the ICB, and LMC. They are also actively involved in Training and Research. Salaried GP colleagues are therefore encouraged to develop their portfolio work. Our innovative Salaried GP development Programme helps facilitate this by making use of our Salaried GP competency Framework. We encourage our GPs to take advantage of our development programme and contribute to PCN and local collaborative initiatives.

About us

We have a list size of approximately 14,000 patients, and this will increase based on our strategy for growth. We offer patients a wide range of in-house services from our own purpose-built premises.

The practice is part of Reading Holybrook PCN, which has a high profile locally because of the innovative projects it delivers. The other Practices in the PCN include Milman & Kennet Surgery (the lead practice) and Abbey Medical Centre. The PCN is fully integrated via the Dr Mittal and Partners Partnership who manage the contracts of all three practices in the PCN.

The Partners have progressed well with the national recruitment agenda and have already recruited clinical pharmacists, social prescribers, paramedics, physicians associates, and advanced clinicians. We have a training programme for staff that is second to none, and our ethos is for all staff to feel supported and develop both personally and professionally.

The practice is supported by a brilliant team of managers, receptionists and administrative staff who enable us to deliver effective patient care, with patient access being our top priority.

We pride ourselves on our supportive and team working approach. We are a high achieving practice that is open to new ideas and ways of working.We understand the current challenges facing general practice and provide a friendly and fully supportive working environment enabling clinicians to deliver excellent care, while maintaining their own wellbeing and work/life balance.