Experienced Salaried GP for up to 7 sessions in Ledbury

Ledbury Health Partnership are offering an opportunity to join our friendly, forward thinking and supportive team. We are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative salaried GP who shares our ambition, values and commitment to patient centred care.

We are offering a competitive salary to a GP available to work up to 7 sessions per week. We use EMIS Web, Docman 10 and AccuRx; and we offer telephone and face to face consultations. We are now using Klinik for total triage, so experience of triage would be helpful, but not essential.

Main duties of the job

You will have a well managed workload with predictable working hours and a well-resourced Duty rota. Importantly, there is a daily coffee meeting at 11am for all GPs and the duty clinical team. We have an administrative team to support clinical workload; they screen all incoming documents and code and filter them before they are passed on to GPs. A Biomedical Scientist filters the bulk of lab results, and we use GP Automate, an AI tool to help with this process too.

About us

We have a practice population of 13750 and we cover the town of Ledbury itself plus the surrounding villages and hamlets. We are consistently high QOF achievers, we have a Good CQC rating and we are a training practice, so we have a combination of FY2s and trainees at different times. We are a 5 Partner GP Team supported by multidisciplinary clinical team of Salaried GPs, Nurses, HCAs, Paramedic, ANP, Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician, a Biomedical Scientist, a First Contact Practitioner and an experienced admin team. Our values are: peer support, high quality patient centred care, innovation, continuous service improvement, compassion and good humour! As part of the East Herefordshire PCN we work collaboratively with neighbouring Practices. The Practice is situated in the market town of Ledbury at the foot of the Malvern Hills, surrounded by idyllic countryside. There are excellent transport links (train station, bus services, M50 providing direct link to M5 for travel from Birmingham or Bristol). There are excellent schools within the area and a wide variety of housing options available.

Job responsibilities

Job Summary: 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.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.

Person Specification

• Available to work for at least 7 sessions per week.
• Experience of working as a GP in Primary Care; preferably at least 5 years.
• Already a GP Trainer or interested in becoming one in the next 12-18 months.
• Knowledge and experience of working with a total triage system, including the ability to triage effectively.
• Able to administer joint injections or willing to learn how.

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.