Salaried GP

We are offering 4 - 8 sessions per week with the opportunity to job share. We have a great team of staff including 3 GP Partners, a Salaried GP, Outreach Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, 3 Practice Nurses, 3 HCAs, a GPA, Social Prescriber and Pharmacy Technician. We are a dispensing practice with 7000 patients for whom we dispense for one third.

Main duties of the job: The role would include face to face, telephone or online consultations and home visits when necessary.

About us: We are located in the pretty market town of Diss which is approximately 25 miles south of Norwich. Our team of staff is friendly and supportive to all colleagues. We have regular meetings, each Monday lunchtime for an hour where we discuss subjects including prescribing, deaths, clinical cases, etc. and lunch is provided. We care about our staff and colleagues and do our best to support them all.

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, the post-holder will 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.
• Undertaking 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.

Confidentiality: In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately. In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.