General Practitioner - St Peter's Surgery

Posted 23 days 11 hours ago by NHS

Permanent
Full Time
Temporary Jobs
Dyfed, Carmarthen, United Kingdom, SA311
Job Description
We are looking for enthusiastic motivated doctor to join our very friendly, highly regarded practice at St. Peters Surgery, Carmarthen

Start date is from ASAP 2026 but we are prepared to wait for the right person.

6 sessions - with an interest in Womans Health matters

Salary On ask

we have three Partners and one salaried GP working 8 sessions a week.

Friendly and dedicated nursing, administrative and community team.

High satisfaction ratings from our patients.

High QOF achievement.

Training Practice

Providing all options of LARC in the practice.

Main duties of the job This is a great opportunity to join a supportive and progressive team whether you're newly qualified or looking for a fresh start in a new environment. The post holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. Ideally the post holder would have a keen interest in womans health matters and support the excellent Nursing team in this.

A key member of the team, the Salaried GP will manage a caseload, dealing with a wide range of presenting health care needs in a primary care setting. The post holder will work with clinical colleagues in ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered patients. The post holder will also contribute to planning and decision making as part of the practice team; the job description therefore covers clinical and organisation elements

A variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion, Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation. Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.

About us The practice was established in July 1984 and originally located in Spilman Street. In April 1991 we moved to new purpose built premises to offer up to date facilities. The surgery is located at the far end of St. Peters car park behind the bowling green. We are close to the main bus routes and parking is available in front of the surgery. We aim to provide a caring, efficient and professional service of the highest standard. In February 2004 the surgery became an approved training practice for the training of GP Registrars, doctors who have undertaken their general medical training and wish to train to become GPs. We are a three partner and one salaried GP practice. We also have long term locum GPs as part of our team plus a highly skilled and dedicated nursing team. We have recently employed a Pharmacist to enhance the services we offer. Our receptionist and admin team are all dedicated and highly trained.

Job responsibilities JOB TITLE: SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER

An interest in Womens health is desirable

REPORTS TO: THE PARTNERS Clinically

THE PRACTICE MANAGER Administratively

HOURS:6 Sessions 3 days a week

Job summary:

We are a welcoming, forward-thinking GP practice seeking a motivated Salaried GP to join us for 6 sessions per week. This is a great opportunity to join a supportive and progressive team whether you're newly qualified or looking for a fresh start in a new environment. The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients. Ideally the post-holder would have a keen interest in womans health matters and support the excellent Nursing team in this.

Main Duties of the Role

A key member of the team, the Salaried GP will manage a caseload, dealing with a wide range of presenting health care needs in a primary care setting. The post holder will work with clinical colleagues in ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered patients. The post holder will also contribute to planning and decision making as part of the practice team; the job description therefore covers clinical and organisation elements. The successful candidate will also have an interest in Womans health matters.

Clinical responsibilities:
  • In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols

Providing counselling and health education

Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary, or generically, whenever this is clinically appropriate

In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other responsibilities within the organisation:
  • Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies, guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
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.

Confidentiality:
  • In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures.

Equality and diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
  • Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
Respecting the privacy dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and, or, study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:
  • Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and, or, professional development
Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and,or, professional development

Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
  • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
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