Job summary
Looking for an enthusiastic GP for a salaried role of between 4 and 8 sessions a week. This is a permanent role, with scope for increasing the number of sessions with a view to eventually taking on partnership.
Main duties of the job
A range of regular clinical duties, including:
- Face to face consultations
- Telephone consultation
- Share of duty doctor resposibilities
- Routine follow-up (e.g. pathology, referrals, hospital correspondence, prescriptions)
- Home visits
- Planned care/chronic disease management
- Acute care
- Share of Extended Access duties (currently 1.5hrs/week)
- Involvement in practice-level clinical decision making
The post-holder will be expected to undertake a share of non-clinical duties within the practice, including:
- Involvement/engagement with practice PCN duties/meetings
- Participation in practice meetings (clinical and otherwise)
- Involvement with practice-level administrative/business decision making
- Involvement in service development and quality improvement
The role will involve engaging in all the regular duties of a GP, making professional and autonomous decisions where necessary, while being guided by overall practice policies, workstreams, and procedures, consulting with senior GP colleagues for collective decision making where necessary, and all responsibilities associated within a GP working within primary care.
About us
We are a small practice with c.3000 patients, with a friendly team, and a great rapport with our patients. We currently have 2 GP partners, a part-time Practice Nurse, and a full-time Healthcare Assistant. We also have support from clinical pharmacists and a first-contact practitioner through our PCN.
We score well on the GP Patient Survey, which we believe reflects our ethos as a family practice focussed on high quality and safe patient care. Our last CQC inspection report rated us as Good in all areas. We are also a teaching practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A range of regular clinical duties, including:
- Face to face consultations
- Telephone consultation
- Duty doctor resposibilities
- Routine follow-up (e.g. pathology, referrals, hospital correspondence, prescriptions)
- Home visits
- Planned care/chronic disease management
- Acute care
- Involvement in practice-level clinical decision making
The post-holder will be expected to undertake a share of non-clinical duties within the practice, including:
- Involvement/engagement with practice PCN duties/meetings
- Participation in practice meetings (clinical and otherwise)
- Involvement with practice-level administrative/business decision making
- Involvement in service development and quality improvement
The role will involve engaging in all the regular duties of a GP, making professional and autonomous decisions where necessary, while being guided by overall practice policies, workstreams, and procedures, consulting with senior GP colleagues for collective decision making where necessary, and all responsibilities associated within a GP working within primary care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration and license to practice
- Inclusion on NHS GP Performers List
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent teamworking skills
- Commitment to high-quality patient care
- Good understanding of Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement
- Good understanding of standards for record keeping
- Commitment to CPD
- Patient-centred approach to care
Desirable
- Experience of working with System1
- Experience and understanding of working in deprived areas
- Experience and understanding of working with diverse patient populations
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of working in General Practice
- Experience of working with System1
- Experience of working in deprived areas
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Schoolacre Surgery
Address
2 Schoolacre Road
Birmingham
B34 6RB
United Kingdom
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