Salaried GP in Southall

Belmont Medical Centre is a high achieving GMS Practice with 8400 patients in Southall, West London. We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Salaried GP (Preferably MRCGP) for at least 5 sessions per week. The post offers significant opportunity for career progression. SystmOne, high QOF achievement, supportive and friendly team. Salary negotiable according to experience and qualifications.

Main duties of the job

• Making professionally autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems.
• Consults with patients in the surgery, at home visits and via telephone or on-line mechanisms.
• Undertakes triage calls, triage visits, checking and signing of repeat prescriptions.
• Screens patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, develops care plans for health.
• Provides counselling and health education as necessary.
• Admits or discharges patients to and from caseload and refers them to other care providers internally and externally as appropriate.
• Complies with all relevant clinical governance and Practice policies and protocols.
• Assists in the establishment of appropriate systems to manage common chronic medical conditions.
• Records clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Provides active input to the wider Primary healthcare team in the process of health needs research/base line data collection/clinical audit.
• Compiles and issues computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, prescribing in accordance with the Practice/NWL ICB prescribing formulary.
• Meets professional learning and CPD requirements.

About us

GP led, working with a highly skilled team of ANPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, CPNs, First Contact Practitioners in MSK, Physician's Associate, Paramedic, Social Prescribers and supported by a motivated and efficient admin team.

Job responsibilities

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 registered and temporary patients.

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self 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 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.
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• 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.
• 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.

Other responsibilities within the organisation

• 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.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care environment.
• Experience of continued professional development.
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit.
• General understanding of the GP contract.

Qualifications

• Qualified GP and MRCGP.
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP.
• General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT).

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.