Salaried GP - 4 sessions

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 4-session salaried GP with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our busy, but friendly, family Practice. You would join an existing clinical team of 4 GP Partners, 2 Salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Practice Nurse, Nurse Associate and GP Assistant serving 7,200 patients in Preston's City Centre. We seek someone who is flexible, dedicated, motivated and shares our values on rigid-prescribing, mutual pastoral support and effective clinical practice.

We are looking for someone to offer us 4 sessions per week. We are flexible with the working pattern to be agreed with the successful candidate. The role is initially to be a fixed term contract up to 31 March 2027, but with a view to extension by mutual agreement and continuing funding. Excellent remuneration on offer, dependent on previous experience. We can be flexible on sessions for the right candidate. Additional sessions available for covering holiday absence. We are based in Geoffrey Street Health Centre, with excellent transport connections and on-site parking.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide GMS services in the form of face to face, telephone and home visits.
• Participate in telephone triage / On-call Doctor role as part of the weekly rota.
• Participate in repeat prescriptions checking as part of the weekly rota.
• Maintain accurate, concise clinical records and coding.
• Enthusiasm to work collaboratively across our clinical and non-clinical team.
• Support the Partners taking a usual share of repeat prescriptions and prescription queries; telephone triage and home visits as needed.

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, infection control.
• 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.
• Negotiating holidays with the partners so as to avoid gaps in patient care.

Safeguarding:

The practice is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults, but also service users and visitors to our services. All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults. The post-holder in conjunction with the management will be responsible for ensuring they undertake the appropriate level of training relevant to their individual role and responsibilities and that they are aware of and work within the relevant safeguarding policies and procedures.

The post-holder is expected to treat patients, and carers, with care and compassion at all times, treating each person as an individual by offering a personalised service. The practice staff will adopt behaviours and attitudes which promote, support and respect privacy and dignity. Staff are expected to challenge poor practice in relation to dignity and treat each other with respect.

The practice is committed to providing consistently excellent and safe patient-centred care for all those who access our services, through highly skilled, committed and compassionate staff working together. The practice does this by putting our patients at the centre of all that we do and providing the best quality care with passion and pride. All staff are required to advocate, champion, and demonstrate the practice's vision and values.