General Practitioner (GP)

This is an exciting opportunity for a General Practitioner to join our clinical team. Crawcrook Medical Centre is a growing Practice of 20,500 patients. We have well-managed branch surgeries at Rowlands Gill Medical Centre, Grange Road Medical Practice, and Blaydon GP Led Practice.

Our clinical team have bi-weekly clinical meetings and meet regularly during coffee breaks to support each other. We have excellent support from a wider team including physios, counsellors (adult and children), health and well-being coach, care navigators, and community link workers, as well as a document management team who process all incoming letters supported by the Medicine Management Team who action any medication requests and deal with queries.

Our sessional rate is based on full-time hours over 4 days.

Job summary

• Each session includes the following:
• 14 face-to-face 15 min appointments and completion of related clinical administration.
• Fair share of visits when required (normally completed by Nurse Practitioners).
• Fair share of bloods, tasks, and medical reports (part-completed by non-clinical staff).
• Assisting completion of the urgent clinical task group and routine clinical task group.
• Other reasonable duties as required.

Main duties of the job

• Provide high-quality patient care.
• Provide face-to-face and telephone consultations as required.
• Effectively utilise in-house and external services when needed.
• Complete all clinical administration work related to patients seen.
• Work collaboratively and contribute to the management and completion of general clinical administration, including bloods, tasks, urgent enquiries, medical reports.
• Attend and contribute to clinical practice meetings as required.
• Ensure that each patient encounter is maximised to attain contractual target requirements.

About us

The Fuller and Forbes Partnership is a primary care provider with practices currently in Leeds, Burnley, Gateshead, and Devon. The organisation provides care to 56,000 patients using a diversified clinical team consisting of on-the-ground paramedics, ANPs, ACPs, Clinical Pharmacists, and a nursing team, with clinical supervision and mentorship by GPs.

The organisation is patient-driven and has used patient feedback in the past to develop innovative services such as a bespoke smartphone app, patient-centred practice websites, joint working with the third sector, and a bespoke e-consultation service. The e-consultation service is accessible through both the smartphone app and website and has provided over 33,000 e-consultations in the last 2 years. The organisation currently receives around 70-100 e-consults per day across all sites.

Job responsibilities

• Utilisation of EMIS clinical system.
• Consult with patients face-to-face and by telephone as required.
• Undertake home visits when required, supported by the Rapid Response Team.
• Prescribe, refer, treat, and advise patients as required.
• Respond to clinical queries from the wider team.
• Contribute to the completion of the clinical task group.
• Fair share of clinical administration, including tasks, bloods, and other general duties.
• Complete medical reports as and when required (shared out across the team).
• Provide support to the wider clinical team including being available to our highly experienced ANPs when required.
• Other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time (please note, protected time will be available for certain duties).

Person Specification

• Qualifications: Full registration with GMC, Completion of GP vocational Training.
• Experience: Experience of using EMIS clinical system. Experience or interest in training other trainee GPs and trainee practitioners.
• 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.

£11,875 a session, 6 - 8 sessions available.