Salaried GP in Surrey

The postholder will support the GP partners to manage a busy, interesting clinicalcaseload spread over the populations covered by the practice ensuring thehighest standard of care for all registered and temporary patients. Up to 6 Sessions per week. Main duties of the job See attached job description for details of clinical and other responsibilitiesas well as the person specification for the role About us We are a friendly team led by three GP Partners providing primary care to the population of Witley, Milford and surrounding areas. We have a registered list size of over 11,000 patients across our two premises. Our Witley site has a dispensary and we provide dispensing services to around half of our registered patients. We are a training practice and innovative in a range of areas. There are plans for a new building to bring our current two sites on to one single site. We welcome informal visits to the practice, please contact Emma Parnell, Management Assistant on emmaparnell@nhs.net to arrange this Job responsibilities Reports to: ThePartners (Clinically) ThePractice Manager (Non-clinically) Hours: Up to 6 sessions per week (with flexibility on sessions per week) Job Summary The post holder will support the GP partnersto manage a busy, interesting clinical caseload spread over the populationscovered by the practice ensuring the highest standard of care for all registeredand temporary patients. Clinical Responsibilities Inaccordance with the Practice rota, the post holder will make him/herselfavailable to undertake a variety of duties including surgery, clinical triage,telephone and electronic consultations and queries, visiting patients homes,checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperworkand correspondence in a timely fashion Respondingto medical problems presented by temporary residents Makingprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers within theorganisation Assessingthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems Screeningpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness Inconsultation with patients and in line with current practice disease managementprotocols, developing care plans for health management To assistin the establishment of appropriate systems to manage common chronic medicalconditions e.g. asthma, diabetes Providingcounselling and health education Makingappropriate and timely referral of patients for further opinion and treatment Recordingclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards including therecording of appropriate information for the Quality and Outcomes Framework andEnhanced Services Prescribingin accordance with Practice policy and formulary as clinically appropriate Compilingand issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions Timelyassessment of incoming electronic and paper correspondence relating to bothpatient and non-patient information as required. Using the appropriateelectronic systems Attendingclinical meetings and other relevant meetings as required by the practice Participatein training plans of GP registrar, medical and nursing students and othereducational placements as required In generalthe post holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties andresponsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care and any otherduties reasonably required by the practice This jobdescription is not exhaustive. We anticipate the role will develop with thesuitable candidate and we may amend it as appropriate Confidentiality To followcurrent GMC guidelines and practice policy to ensure patients have theconfidence and right to expect that staff will respect their privacy anddignity and act appropriately Informationrelating to patients, carers, colleagues or other healthcare workers or issuesrelating to the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorisedpersons in accordance with the above guidelines and policy Health