Salaried GP
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Salaried GP
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is looking to recruit a GP for 2 sessions a week. The successful applicant will be working alongside (full time) 3 partners, 4 nurse practitioners, clinical pharmacists, with the full support of our nurses, HCA’s, reception and admin team.
About the Role
Clinical responsibilities include:
- 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 queries, home visits, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, reasonable paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
- 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
- Providing counselling and health education
- Admitting 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 if needed
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
- 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.
About the Candidate
To be considered for this position, you will require the following;
- Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
- Annual appraisal and revalidation if appropriate
- valid driving license
- Be on the NHSE medical performers list
and skills, including:
- Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services
- Ability to take responsibility for your own career development, learning and performance and are responsible for ensuring that all your mandatory training is in date
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines, e.g prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
- Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner
- Able to work within a dynamic active and friendly team
About Us
We are an approximately 8000 patient surgery located near Highwoods country park in Colchester. We are a training practice and one of our GP’s is one of the leads for the training hub. Our surgery has recently undergone extensive renovations giving us an extra 2 clinical rooms and 2 consultation rooms.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.