General Practitioner - Practice 3 Keir Hardie Health Park

Job summary

Salary Available on Application

• 4 sessions a week

We are currently looking to recruit a salaried GP, with view to partnership, to join us in working 4 sessions a week.This would be an addition to our existing small team, comprising of 2 GP partners, a Practice Nurse, a HCSW and a supportive reception and administrative staff. An inhouse Physiotherapist, a Mental Health Practitioner, A GP Support Officer/ Social prescriber complete our practice team.

We provide a range of enhanced services including joint injections, gender identity services, substance misuse, DOAC initiation and monitoring

We provide GP training placements and educational supervision and teaching for medical students

We are an active Study & Research practice

Main duties of the job

We encourage applications from experienced GPs or those who have completed their GP training more recently. Practice 3 are a training practice and will be supportive to further develop a newly qualified GP.

Our patient appointment sessions are a mix of pre-bookable and on the day booking to aid patient choice and clinical decision. In addition there are a small number of appointments for administrative queries, which includes medical correspondence, results of tests/investigations and prescription signing; this would be allocated equitably

The requirement to conduct baby medicals would be included in this role.

In caring for patients, you would

• Practise evidence-based medicine, in line with national and locally agreed guidelines

• Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems

• Promote healthy living and give health and wellbeing advice to encourage patients to follow a healthy lifestyle

• Participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant events and other shared learning activities within a structured framework.

Home visits are minimum

Salary is negotiable and dependent on previous experience

About us

Practice 3 is situated in a purpose built premises in Merthyr Tydfil. We share the premises with other GP practices, the Academic Centre as a base for students, and many health professionals which lends itself to collaborative working and integrated patient care.

Our Practice ethos is to provide

• Professional, accessible, high quality, comprehensive healthcare services to our patients and their families.

• Encouragement to our staff to and develop skills and a knowledge base to ensure that they are suitably skilled, resilient and an adaptable work force to meet the needs of our patients.

• Excellence in teaching and training of medical students, GP Registrars and Nurses

• Collaboration in working in partnerships with our local medical teams.