Pendeen Surgery

Salaried GP 6-7 sessions

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Job summary

Salaried GP

6-7 Sessions per week

Salary: £10,618.98 per session

Pendeen Surgery are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Clinical Team as a Salaried GP who can help us to continue providing excellent care to our patients.

The successful candidate will have a combination of routine appointment sessions and one Duty Doctor day each week. In 2019 we set our routine face to face appointments to 15 minutes in duration. Our standard routine session is a combination of 8 x 15 minute face-to-face appointments and 6 x 10 minute telephone consultations.

Our Urgent Care Team (consisting of 2 ANPs and a Clinical Pharmacist) work alongside the Duty GP to run our acute service. This will involve a combination of triage, face to face and home visits where applicable. We have be operating this system of Urgent Care since the beginning of 2017, which was seen as new way of working at the time and is now standard practice at most GP Surgeries.

Each week we rota 2.5 hours of CPD into one of the afternoon sessions so that afternoon will have a reduced number of appointments.

We have senior administrators who triage all correspondence so that each GP only sees what they really need to and medication actions are dealt with by our Clinical Pharmacist.

Benefits:

Supportive and innovate team
CPD incorporated into working sessions
NHS pension
Standard terms and conditions of BMA Model Contract
Cycle to work scheme
Free on-site parking

Main duties of the job

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
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 handwritten 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

About us

Pendeen Surgery is a busy market town GP Practice with just under 9000 patients. At Pendeen Surgery we have an excellent group of clinical and admin individuals who enjoy working alongside each other. Primary Care has seen many challenges in recent years and our team is always supportive and positive towards one another.

We are training Practice with three GP trainers (Dr Das, Dr Boughen and Dr Thurgood). We use EMIS Web and Docman clinical systems, along with Accurx. We have consistently been rated as Good by CQC and are very high QOF achievers.

We are part of the South and West Primary Care Network (Herefordshire). Our Extended Access cover is provided by Taurus Healthcare with appointments in the evenings and at the weekends. We also have Herefordshire Remote Health (HRH) virtual appointments during the day which is also run by Taurus Healthcare.

The surgery is situated just 5 minutes out of town adjacent to Dean Hill Park and a stone's throw from the Community Hospital.

Date posted

17 October 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£10,618.98 a session

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A1092-23-0000

Job locations

Kent Avenue

Ross-on-wye

Herefordshire

HR9 5AH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis

Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate).

Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug-and nondrug-based treatment methods into a management plan.

Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence, and to acknowledge limitations.

Advise patients on general health care and minor ailments, with referral to other members of the primary and secondary health care team as necessary.

Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.

Work with patients in order to support compliance with, and adherence to, prescribed treatments.

Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication, medication regimes, side-effects and interactions

Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.

Monitor and maintain the consistency of professional standards set.
Take appropriate action if standards are not being met.
Recognise the development needs of others and take appropriate action
Advise and support other members of the team whilst matching tasks and workload to capabilities of team members
Identify and support practice development plans