WF GP Federation is recruiting bank GPs to cover extended access (EA) shifts in its practices, listed as a single day. The work centres on telephone and face-to-face consultations: assessing, diagnosing and treating patients, prescribing, referring and keeping full clinical records. Shifts run weekday evenings and weekend daytime, and the role draws on the skills of an in-hours GP while working alongside nursing and administration teams. Applicants need a current GMC registration and a place on a performers list.
What the job involves
- Provide face-to-face and telephone appointments for patients on extended access shifts
- Act as an autonomous clinician, providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment
- Triage and prioritise patients, taking history including past medical and drug history
- Evaluate clinical information and decide on treatment, referral or discharge
- Refer patients to appropriate care settings where necessary
- Prescribe, supply or administer medication and treatments under agreed protocols within scope of competence
- Keep accurate, contemporaneous computerised records of every contact, including adverse events and safeguarding concerns
- Work with nursing and administration teams and with acute trusts, neighbourhood teams, hospices and social care
- Follow the federation's operational policies and procedures
- Help develop an integrated approach to the delivery of patient care
- Provide clinical support
- Deal with patients appropriately and efficiently while keeping high-quality service standards
What’s required
Qualifications
- MRCGP or equivalent
- Recent evidence of continued academic and professional development
Registration & licences
- Valid GMC registration
- Licence to practise
- Currently on a performers list
Skills & knowledge
- Experience of Microsoft Office software
- Works well as a team player within a multi-disciplinary team
- Works under own initiative
- Adheres to the Confidentiality Code and data protection regulations
Other
- An interest in and enthusiasm for general practice
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
