Job summary
Whether you are starting out on your GP journey and actively looking for a practice with a strong track record in supporting new GPs, or you are an experienced GP looking for a new challenge. St Lukes Surgery offers the chance to develop a special interest or widen your portfolio career. We would like to hear from you.
St Lukes is a practice of 2 GP partners and a clinical pharmacist partner with 2 salaried GP's. One of our salaried GP's is shortly leaving the practice and we are now recruiting an enthusiastic GP to work with our motivated and strongly supportive team.
With a registered list of just over 7,800 this is an ideal opportunity to become established in general practice in a very pleasant area with excellent schools, surrounded by beautiful countryside and within easy reach of of Cardiff, Newport and the Brecon Beacons.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague who is forward thinking and a strong team player, who shares our ethos and approach of putting patients first, to join our well established, hardworking and dedicated team.
About us
We are offering the opportunity to experience a wide range of general practice in a friendly and relaxed environment with the time to explore and expand your personal interests and to fulfill your career aims
Our team includes:
- 2 GPs with current urgent care experience working with OOHs
- Medico-legal expert
- Prescribing pharmacists to support medicines management and audit
- Community Nurse Practitioner undertaking home visits
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Excellent practice nursing team leading chronic disease management
- NCN Cluster funded Physiotherapist, Clinical Pharmacist and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
- Team of Prescription clerks
- Experienced and friendly administration and reception team providing full support to clinicians
- Frontline staff fully trained in care navigation and signposting
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main functions of the job:
- Providing a high quality personal medical service for the patients of St Lukes Surgery to a competent and acceptable standard.
- Taking part in the day to day activities of the practice. Home visits however, are normally undertaken by our Community Nurse Practitioner
- Taking clinical responsibility and accountability for the practice population.
- Working to promote the practice positively and engaging with patients in order to improve service delivery.
- To provide clinical leadership if required when the Lead GP is absent.
- Maintaining appropriate records to ensure continuity and quality of care for patients.
- Maintaining records of appointments, financial transactions and other administrative duties.
- Collaborating with other practice staff on development and delivery of the practices objectives, identifying potential service changes in line with clinical needs locally and working to develop these.
- Maintaining skills at the current level, and undertaking such training and development as may from time-to-time be required to maintain or improve personal competency.
(Note: In addition to these functions, employees are required to carry out such duties as may reasonably be required)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main functions of the job:
- Providing a high quality personal medical service for the patients of St Lukes Surgery to a competent and acceptable standard.
- Taking part in the day to day activities of the practice. Home visits however, are normally undertaken by our Community Nurse Practitioner
- Taking clinical responsibility and accountability for the practice population.
- Working to promote the practice positively and engaging with patients in order to improve service delivery.
- To provide clinical leadership if required when the Lead GP is absent.
- Maintaining appropriate records to ensure continuity and quality of care for patients.
- Maintaining records of appointments, financial transactions and other administrative duties.
- Collaborating with other practice staff on development and delivery of the practices objectives, identifying potential service changes in line with clinical needs locally and working to develop these.
- Maintaining skills at the current level, and undertaking such training and development as may from time-to-time be required to maintain or improve personal competency.
(Note: In addition to these functions, employees are required to carry out such duties as may reasonably be required)
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Skills and Personal Qualities needed:
- Previous experience of working in general practice with a passion for high quality patient care.
- Willing to take a proactive approach and contribute to the continuing success of the practice, enjoys seeing the difference that own work makes.
- Common sense approach enabling delivery of effective and efficient patient care, with the ability to work flexibly.
- Excellent, calm and clear verbal and written communication skills using English.
- Ability to identify and assess complex and multiple needs.
- Health & safety conscious with awareness of safety issues.
- Ability to work with a multi-disciplinary team.
- Existing skills or prepared to learn: Minor Surgery, Sexual Health, Family Planning, Vaccination.
- Reliable, trustworthy, punctual, organised, pays attention to detail, able to work consistently and deliver a variety of services, including when under pressure.
- Confident, professional, considerate, empathic, adaptable, willing to help out with whatever is needed to deliver excellent patient care.
- Understanding of and ability to deliver excellent customer service.
- Supportive team player and creative thinker.
- Personal Development & Interests:
- Self-directed learning.
- Open-minded approach to profession and life in general.
- Willingness to represent the Practice at external meetings.
- Availability to cover for absent colleagues when necessary.
- Available for on-call commitments (eg, when phone/ e-mail cover is required).
- Membership of a Medical Defence Organisation
Qualifications
Essential
- Medical degree.
- Registered GP with the GMC (included on the GP Register).
- Included on GP Performers List.
- Possesses the right to work in the UK.
- Current General Practice experience with up-to-date GMC appraisal/revalidation.
- Demonstrable ability to relate well to challenging patients,
- carers, relatives and staff.
- Full driving licence, with use of own car.
Desirable
- Experienced in Women's Health
- Experience in Family Planning
- Experience in Minor surgery
- (or willing to develop skills in the above)
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Skills and Personal Qualities needed:
- Previous experience of working in general practice with a passion for high quality patient care.
- Willing to take a proactive approach and contribute to the continuing success of the practice, enjoys seeing the difference that own work makes.
- Common sense approach enabling delivery of effective and efficient patient care, with the ability to work flexibly.
- Excellent, calm and clear verbal and written communication skills using English.
- Ability to identify and assess complex and multiple needs.
- Health & safety conscious with awareness of safety issues.
- Ability to work with a multi-disciplinary team.
- Existing skills or prepared to learn: Minor Surgery, Sexual Health, Family Planning, Vaccination.
- Reliable, trustworthy, punctual, organised, pays attention to detail, able to work consistently and deliver a variety of services, including when under pressure.
- Confident, professional, considerate, empathic, adaptable, willing to help out with whatever is needed to deliver excellent patient care.
- Understanding of and ability to deliver excellent customer service.
- Supportive team player and creative thinker.
- Personal Development & Interests:
- Self-directed learning.
- Open-minded approach to profession and life in general.
- Willingness to represent the Practice at external meetings.
- Availability to cover for absent colleagues when necessary.
- Available for on-call commitments (eg, when phone/ e-mail cover is required).
- Membership of a Medical Defence Organisation
Qualifications
Essential
- Medical degree.
- Registered GP with the GMC (included on the GP Register).
- Included on GP Performers List.
- Possesses the right to work in the UK.
- Current General Practice experience with up-to-date GMC appraisal/revalidation.
- Demonstrable ability to relate well to challenging patients,
- carers, relatives and staff.
- Full driving licence, with use of own car.
Desirable
- Experienced in Women's Health
- Experience in Family Planning
- Experience in Minor surgery
- (or willing to develop skills in the above)
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).