Salaried GP – Bosvena Health

Summary

We are looking for a 4 to 6 session Salaried GP to join our team at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], with an opportunity for partnership. The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all patients.

• The post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence
• 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 health education and support

Main duties of the job

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

About us

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a GP practice in central Cornwall. We cover a Practice area of approximately 7 miles radius from Bodmin, with a semi-rural practice population. You will work as a GP within a multi-disciplinary Practice team including, Nurse Practitioners, Paramedic visiting service, Pharmacist, Chronic Disease clinics, admin and Nursing teams. This is an exciting opportunity to join a well established team, as a replacement for our senior partner, and you will have the opportunity to work in a progressive and forward thinking practice, with Medical Students, Community Hospital and local Primary Care Network involvement.

Job responsibilities

• 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
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical Doctor – GMC registered

Experience

Desirable

• Experience of work within General Practice post qualification

Contact

To apply for this job please contact: Michelle Pratley, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], [contact hidden]