Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified GP (within 2 years of qualification) to join our team as a PCN General Medical Practitioner. Initially on a fixed term contract until the end of March 2025.
You would be required to work 4 sessions per week across Bloomfield Medical Centre and Waterloo Medical Centre.
If it is less than two years since you qualified and you have not been substantively employed within a GP practice since that date, this fulfilling role could be for you.
Main duties of the job
- Primary Responsibilities
- Patient Consultations
- Chronic Disease Management
- Prevention Care & Screening
- Referral & Coordination of Care
- Health Promotion Public Health & Community Engagement
- Quality Improvement
About us
Blackpool South Central Primary Care Network consists of the
following practices:
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Bloomfield Medical Centre
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Waterloo Medical Centre
The
Waterloo Medical Centre is well established in the community and has a patient
population of over 12000 patients. The practice consists of 5 GP Partners, 1
Salaried GP, 3 Practice Nurses, 1 HCA, 1 Nursing Associate, 1 Physiotherapist,
2 Pharmacists, 1 Pharmacy Technician and 12 Admin/Reception staff. We are a
busy friendly forward thinking practice. Waterloo Medical Centre is a training
practice that has 2 GP Registrars.
Bloomfield
Medical Centre is a 8 Partner GP Practice Primary Care provider based over two
sites in Blackpool, Bloomfield Medical Centre on Bloomfield Road and Grange
Park Health Centre on Dinmore Avenue.
Our services are diverse, forward-thinking enabling us to deliver care
to meet local priorities in relation to deprivation, chronic disease, improved
access, migration from secondary care and more efficient commissioning.
We
provide high quality general medical care to a registered list of over 16,000
patients over the two sites, through our dedicated team of clinical,
administrative and management professionals including 8 GP Partners, Salaried
doctors, Clinical Pharmacists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Nurse
Practitioners, Practice Nurses and Healthcare Assistants.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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/community settings, checking, and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, and correspondence in a timely fashion.
- 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 prescriptions (avoiding hand-written 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, including participation in the Duty Team on call arrangements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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/community settings, checking, and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, and correspondence in a timely fashion.
- 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 prescriptions (avoiding hand-written 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, including participation in the Duty Team on call arrangements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The applicant must be a qualified GP with full GMC registration licence to practice, on a performers list and have a UK drivers licence
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a GP practice using EMIS
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Observance of strict confidentiality
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to listen and empathise
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Competent time management and organisational skills
- Adaptable and forward looking with problem solving and a solutions focused approach
- A demonstrable commitment to professional development
- Computer literate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The applicant must be a qualified GP with full GMC registration licence to practice, on a performers list and have a UK drivers licence
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a GP practice using EMIS
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Observance of strict confidentiality
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to listen and empathise
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Competent time management and organisational skills
- Adaptable and forward looking with problem solving and a solutions focused approach
- A demonstrable commitment to professional development
- Computer literate
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).
