General Practitioner (GP)

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities Purpose of the Post and General Responsibilities

• To provide General Medical Services to residents in Presteigne, Mid Powys and to provide service, support and advice aimed at developing excellence in general medical services to the community. This role will provide Salaried GP cover. This GP cover will consist ofGP/Clinical Practice & Operational Delivery,Prescribing, Long-term Condition Management,Governance and Risk Management,Leadership and Development andEngagement.

Experience

Essential

• Clinical and Management Experience.
• Experience of NHS General Practice.
• Experience in Primary Care.
• Knowledge of UK hospital systems, or equivalent.
• Knowledge and participation in CPD.
• Competence in General Medical Services and able to apply
• knowledge.
• Meet the requirement of the GMC's, Good Medical Practice.
• Knowledge of the management and structure of the NHS.
• Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of
• audit in improving medical practice.
• Comprehension of core philosophy and building blocks of Clinical
• Governance.
• Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence.
• Ability to cope with stressful situations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and team-working skills. Ability to
• work as part of a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team.
• Ability to work flexibly in response to the changing needs of
• unscheduled primary care.
• Good listening and motivational skills.
• Good IT skills, including the use of email effectively.
• Safe and effective written and verbal communication skills, including the use of telephone consultation.
• Willingness to teach medical undergraduates and postgraduates.
• All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken
• English adequate to enable effective communication about medical
• topics with patients and colleagues.
• Must be able to commit to on-call commitments and travel to meet
• requirements of the post.

Desirable

• Experience of Out of Hours and local NHS Services.
• Leadership and People management experience.
• Recent minor surgery experience.
• Knowledge of risk management.
• Evidence of organising programmes and teaching medical students
• and Junior Doctors.
• Organisation of further teaching programmes in medical education.
• Ability to speak Welsh or willingness to learn. Ability to speak other
• languages.

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with License to Practice:
• - On the GMC GP Register
• - On the Welsh Medical Performers List (WPL)
• Must be approved for both within 3 months of the interview date
• Relevant Higher Degree e.g. MRCGP or Equivalent.

Desirable

• Evidence of management training.
• Training the Trainers qualification or experience as GP trainer.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).