General Practitioner - Forest View Medical Centre

We believe outstanding general practice is built on teamwork, professional challenge, and variety. We value the privilege afforded to us in making a genuine difference to patients' lives. We strive at Forest View to ensure that clinicians are supported, listened to, and encouraged to develop their interests while contributing to a shared vision for sustainable, high-quality care. Our practice vision is inspired by Blue Zone principles, recognising that long-term health is shaped not only by medical care, but by how people move, eat, connect socially, and live with purpose. We aim to support our community through preventative, person-centred medicine, encouraging healthy lifestyles and social connection alongside excellent clinical practice.

You will be joining a practice that:

• Values collaboration, mutual respect, and shared responsibility
• Is deeply rooted in its local community
• Encourages innovation and reflective practice
• Supports preventative and population-focused healthcare
• Is committed to continual improvement for both patients and clinicians

So, if your motivation includes teamwork, challenge, variety, autonomy, and the opportunity to be part of something meaningful, then Forest View Medical Centre may be the right place for you. Located in the beautiful North Rhondda, we offer the chance to practise medicine that is both interesting and deeply rewarding, within a supportive team and a community that values its general practice.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Clinical Excellence: Conduct thorough clinical examinations to accurately assess, diagnose, and manage patient conditions. Your expertise will be pivotal in ensuring high-quality care and outcomes for our patients.
• Patient Consultations: Provide compassionate and effective consultations both within the surgery and through home visits, ensuring accessibility and continuity of care for all patients, including those who are housebound.
• Holistic Patient Care: Monitor ongoing conditions and overall wellbeing of patients, adopting a proactive approach to health maintenance and disease prevention.
• Specialised Procedures: Perform minor surgical procedures as necessary, equipped with the latest techniques and knowledge to ensure safety and effectiveness.
• Collaborative Practice: Work within multidisciplinary teams, including midwives, pharmacists, health visitors, psychiatrists, and other healthcare professionals, to deliver a coordinated and comprehensive care experience.
• Practice Management and Administration: Engage in essential practice management and administrative duties, contributing to the smooth operation and continuous improvement of our services.

About us

We are a 15,000-patient teaching practice, shortly consolidating across two main sites, serving the North Rhondda community. Our ethos is built on clinical excellence, teamwork, and continuous improvement, with a strong belief that general practice remains one of the most professionally rewarding areas of medicine.

We are proud to boast a strong multidisciplinary clinical team, including:

• 6 GP Partners
• 5 Practice Nurses
• Physiotherapist service
• Experienced care navigation and administrative staff

We are an established Training practice with a commitment to GP education and professional development. We have modern and efficient systems:

• EMIS clinical system
• Electronic prescribing
• Total triage via AccuRx to allow the best use of resource improving patient journey and GP workload
• Surgery Connect telephony

Job responsibilities

As a Salaried General Practitioner, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality primary care services, with a range of responsibilities tailored to meet the dynamic needs of our patients and practice. While the core duties are outlined below, flexibility and a willingness to adapt to varying workload and staffing levels are essential.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Consultations: Engage in surgery consultations, telephone consultations, and patient queries as per the practice timetable. This includes home visits, managing repeat prescriptions, and addressing patient queries and paperwork efficiently.
• Decision-Making: Make professional, autonomous decisions for presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred by other healthcare workers.
• Patient Assessment: Assess healthcare needs for patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems, screening for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Care Planning: Develop care plans in consultation with patients, aligning with current practice disease management protocols.
• Health Education and Counselling: Provide counselling and health education, tailoring advice and support to patient needs.
• Patient Management: Manage patient admission and discharge from the caseload, referring to other care providers as appropriate.
• Documentation: Maintain clear, contemporaneous consultation notes and collect data for audit purposes, adhering to QOF requirements and delivering enhanced services.
• Prescriptions: Issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, prescribing in accordance with the practice formulary and clinical appropriateness.

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

• Policy Compliance: Ensure awareness and compliance with all practice policies and guidelines, including prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health & safety and duty of candour.
• Continuous Learning: Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning, audit, and evidence-based practice. Contribute to clinical standard setting and the development of computer-based patient records.
• Record Management: Contribute to patient record summarising and Read-Coding of patient data. Attend relevant training and events to maintain and enhance professional development.

Practice Responsibilities:

• Clinical Standards and Audit: Contribute to clinical standard setting and audits, ensuring data is recorded promptly and accurately in patient records systems.
• Health and Safety: Maintain responsibility for personal health and safety, as well as that of others, adhering to practice health and safety policies and procedures.
• Professional Development: Develop a training plan in conjunction with practice objectives, participating fully in training and development opportunities provided by the practice.
• Training & Development: Participate fully in training and development activities and engage with strategies to enhance clinical, leadership and administrative skills, in alignment with practice business objectives.

This role demands a proactive, dedicated approach to patient care, with a strong emphasis on quality, safety, and continuous improvement.

OUR VALUES

We put our patients at the HEART of everything we do.

• Harmony: Working in harmony with our colleagues, community and external healthcare professionals we will create a vision of healthcare for the future. Working harmoniously, we will create a multidisciplinary health care model to provide quality healthcare for each patient at the right time. We will always welcome open and honest feedback so that we can strive for excellence. Excellence will be achieved through continuous learning and developing innovative solutions to improve healthcare for our community. We will invest time to provide ongoing training and support to not only our colleagues but GPs of the future.
• Accountability: This means more than simply just doing our job, it forms our obligation to make things better, to pursue excellence and the vision for our practice. Being accountable means we are answerable for our actions and the actions of our team. It helps drive our commitment to the quality and improvement of services and care.
• Respect: Respect is a guiding value for all colleagues at Forest View, it makes the foundation for every interaction. We will respect and appreciate each person's need or point of view recognising them as individuals and we will always take the time to understand and support them.
• Teamwork: We understand that the success of our practice is inevitably tied to others and our performance as a team is defined by every person. We commit to keeping our colleagues safe and looking after their well-being. We will always welcome partnerships that enhance and benefit the community we serve.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills:

• Polite and confident
• Flexible and cooperative
• Motivated
• Forward thinker
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations

Experience:

• MRCGP
• Experience within the NHS and/or Primary Care

Qualifications:

• Full registration with General Medical Council and listed on GP register
• Listed on Wales Medical Performers List
• Right to work in the United Kingdom

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.