Exciting opportunity has arisen for a 5 session salaried GP to join our team at Bridgewater Surgeries. The role will be working across 4 sites with a working pattern of Wed/Thurs/Fri.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will manage a caseload of patients and dealwith a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring thehighest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.
This role will include:-
- A pro rata commitment of duty/on call sessions
- Domiciliary/Nursinghome visits on a shared and demand basis
- Attendanceat weekly lunchtime meetings (a mixture of MDT, staff and clinicalmeetings which will offer clinical education, SEA and can be used for appraisalpurposes
- Alist of usual patients
- DebriefingPhysicians Associates, trainees, medical students
- Ashare of extended hours allocation.
About us
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
We are a large, dynamic trainingPractice with a growing list size of over 36,000 patients across 4 sites.
About the practice:
13 Partners, 12 Salaried GPs along with a team of PA's, Nurses, HCA, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Admin
We are a training Practice for GPRegistrars, Medical Students, Physician Associates.
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Job responsibilities
Job summary:
The post-holder will manage a caseload and dealwith a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring thehighest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.
Clinical responsibilities:
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, thepost-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety ofduties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations andqueries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeatprescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in atimely fashion
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation topresenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation
- Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiatedand undiagnosed problems
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs ofillness
- Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients andin line with current practice disease management protocols
- Providing counselling and health education
- Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload andreferring to other care providers as appropriate
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreedstandards
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeatprescriptions (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 thenormal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working withinprimary care.
Person Specification Qualifications
- Qualified GP
- MRCGP
- Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent
- General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training)
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.