Job summary
Are you caring, hard-working, reliable, and friendly? Are you looking for a job in healthcare that supports your training and development? Then Farnham Road Practice may be the place for you.
We looking for a Registered General Practitioner to provide a full range of Primary Medical Services to our patients including but not limited to, clinical examination, diagnosis, and treatment as appropriate. You will enjoy working in a dynamic environment as part of a large multidisciplinary team that will support and aid your daily work. You will receive extensive continued professional development.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a full or part-time GP to join our diverse team. As a GP you can expect:
- Routine clinical sessions consisting of telephone and face-to-face appointments
- Triage and duty sessions supported by other members of the clinical team
- Minimal home visits - in-house paramedics and paramedic home visiting service support with these
- Minimal admin work - well supported by physician associates and clinical pharmacists to carry out routine Docman and reports
- Opportunity to take on leadership roles and develop special interests. Funding available for appropriate training
- Weekly clinician lunchtime meeting - for updates and education
- 11 o'clock coffee time - to meet and chat with other clinicians each day
- Regular social events
- Opportunity to sign up for a private medical care cash plan six months after joining
- Competitive salary
- Six weeks of annual leave and one week of study leave
- One session for annual appraisal
About us
We are a large, progressive, four-site training practice based in Slough looking after nearly 38,000 patients. The practice is committed to innovation in providing high-quality health care for our patients and a protected working and learning environment for our staff. Teamwork and education are part of our core values.
Our Primary Health Care Team continues to grow with GPs working alongside Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistants, Physician Associates, Clinical Pharmacists, Paramedics, MSK Practitioners, Care coordinators, and Social Prescribers. This strong clinical team combined with our dedicated Patient Services Team provides an evolving healthcare and medical service to meet the varying needs of our patients and, in turn, provide what we believe is a sustainable model of modern General Practice.
Our vision is simple: "Putting Patients First", which we strive to achieve through teamwork, communication, problem-sharing and solving, training, education, and continued development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
- To provide the full range of NHS General/Primary Medical Services to the patients registered to the Farnham Road Medical Group (FRMG), temporary residents and patients presenting for immediately necessary treatment including clinical examination, diagnosis, treatment and referral as appropriate.
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including:
- surgery consultations, telephone consultations and triage, video & electronic message consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, on-call/duty work, extended hours sessions
- checking and signing prescriptions
- dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required in a timely fashion including but not limited to:
- Electronic Prescription Services (EPS)
- Checking and signing of repeat prescriptions (where EPS does not apply)
- Safeguarding reports
- Dealing with EMIS queries/tasks
- Patient test/blood results
- Patient medical reports and examinations (e.g. for insurance companies)
- 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
- Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
- To promote and maintain optimum health of the registered patient population of FRMG by identifying, planning and undertaking specific health promotional activities with identified individuals and target groups in order to improve their health and facilitate further service development.
- 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 including following the practice policies for coding and recording information
- Collecting data for audit purposes
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
- Prescribing in accordance with the practice or local prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
Other Responsibilities
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines
- A commitment to audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
- Reporting on Significant Events
- Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
- Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records on EMIS Web.
- Contributing to the summarising of patient records and SNOMED-coding patient data
- Attending practice meetings and contributing as appropriate e.g. with Audit, NICE Guidance and Journal updates at least annually as scheduled
- Attending any Protected Learning Time sessions provided by either the CCG for the Practice or by the Practice itself
- Attending training where appropriate.
Quality
- Strive to maintain quality within the organisation
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Be an ambassador for FRMG, displaying commitment and loyalty to the Group at all times and treating internal practice discussions as confidential
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
- To provide the full range of NHS General/Primary Medical Services to the patients registered to the Farnham Road Medical Group (FRMG), temporary residents and patients presenting for immediately necessary treatment including clinical examination, diagnosis, treatment and referral as appropriate.
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including:
- surgery consultations, telephone consultations and triage, video & electronic message consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, on-call/duty work, extended hours sessions
- checking and signing prescriptions
- dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required in a timely fashion including but not limited to:
- Electronic Prescription Services (EPS)
- Checking and signing of repeat prescriptions (where EPS does not apply)
- Safeguarding reports
- Dealing with EMIS queries/tasks
- Patient test/blood results
- Patient medical reports and examinations (e.g. for insurance companies)
- 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
- Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
- To promote and maintain optimum health of the registered patient population of FRMG by identifying, planning and undertaking specific health promotional activities with identified individuals and target groups in order to improve their health and facilitate further service development.
- 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 including following the practice policies for coding and recording information
- Collecting data for audit purposes
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
- Prescribing in accordance with the practice or local prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
Other Responsibilities
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines
- A commitment to audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
- Reporting on Significant Events
- Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
- Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records on EMIS Web.
- Contributing to the summarising of patient records and SNOMED-coding patient data
- Attending practice meetings and contributing as appropriate e.g. with Audit, NICE Guidance and Journal updates at least annually as scheduled
- Attending any Protected Learning Time sessions provided by either the CCG for the Practice or by the Practice itself
- Attending training where appropriate.
Quality
- Strive to maintain quality within the organisation
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Be an ambassador for FRMG, displaying commitment and loyalty to the Group at all times and treating internal practice discussions as confidential
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified General Practitioner, Registered and licensed to practice with GMC
- Cited on Medical Performers List
- Appropriate post- graduate qualification
- Excellent clinical knowledge
Desirable
- Understanding of clinical IT system- EMIS
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified General Practitioner, Registered and licensed to practice with GMC
- Cited on Medical Performers List
- Appropriate post- graduate qualification
- Excellent clinical knowledge
Desirable
- Understanding of clinical IT system- EMIS
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).
