General Practitioner - Westfield Medical Centre

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Provide a full range of medical services as defined in the core GMS contract and additional and enhanced services where appropriate.

• Undertake a variety of duties (as agreed) including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with all queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion to ensure patient safety is not compromised.

• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.

• Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.

• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.

• Develop care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.

• Provide counselling and health education where appropriate.

• Refer patients to other care providers as appropriate.

• Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes in line with Good Medical Practice.

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance and discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.

• All patients have the right to expect that all practice staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately at all times.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GMC registration

Experience

Essential

• GP experience

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).

Employer details

Employer name

GP Practice in Wales

Address

Westfield Medical Centre

34 Westfield Avenue

Newport

Gwent

NP20 6EY

Employer's website

https://gpwales.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)