Salaried GP Maternity Cover

Full-Time On-site

This is a salaried GP post covering maternity leave at The Dow Surgery, a training practice with around 12,000 registered patients. The work is a 12-month temporary contract, four sessions a week, managing a caseload across a wide range of primary care health needs. The sessions fall on Mondays and Tuesdays at a single town-centre site, alongside a team of GP partners, salaried doctors and nurses who also teach students and trainees. Active GMC registration and experience in a GP practice are essential.

What the job involves

Manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in primary care, to the highest standards for registered and temporary patients
Attend surgery and telephone consultations and home visits, and deal with repeat prescription checks, queries, paperwork and correspondence to the practice timetable
Make autonomous clinical decisions on presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred by colleagues
Assess patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
Develop care plans with patients in line with disease management protocols
Provide counselling and health education
Admit and discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers
Record clear, contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
Issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, prescribing from the formulary or generically where clinically appropriate
Collect audit data, contribute to clinical standard setting and keep up with evidence-based practice
Contribute to computer-based patient records, including summarising records and read-coding patient data