Salaried GP
Posted 1 day 20 hours ago by NHS
We are looking for a Salaried GP for 4-8 sessions, to join our vibrant, forward-thinking team at Lockwood GP Surgery.
The post-holder will participate with colleagues to maintain a rota of cover during practice opening hours (5-day period) to deal with a wide range of health needs in primary care at Lockwood GP Surgery.
We also have a close working relationship with Bloomfield Medical. As this working relationship develops, there will be an increased opportunity for the postholder to deliver primary care services across a wide range of sites including:
Bloomfield Medical Centre, Grange Park Surgery, the Blackpool Urgent Treatment Centre, and the Blackpool Victoria Urgent Treatment Centre, co-located with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Emergency Department (based on the Acute Hospital site).
Main duties of the job- Provide high- quality care in a primary care setting. Assessing, diagnosing and treating patients.
- Management of screening, prevention and chronic care issues.
- Admin duties: Managing necessary paperwork through EMIS clinical system and ensuring timely communication with other health providers.
Lockwood GP Surgery is a unique practice, based in the heart of Poulton-le-Fylde. Our services are diverse, forward-thinking enabling us to deliver care to meet local priorities.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do. We provide high quality general medical care to a registered list of over 9,300 patients, through our dedicated team of clinical, administrative and management professionals including 6 GP Partners, Clinical Pharmacists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Paramedics, Practice Nurses and Healthcare Assistants.
Job responsibilities- 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
- In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
- Providing counselling and health education
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home/community settings, checking, and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, and correspondence in a timely fashion.
- 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 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, including participation in the Duty Team on call arrangements.
- Excellent oral, aural, and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with difficult situations.
- Previous use of EMIS Web and Adastra IT systems.
- An awareness of current speciality specific developments and initiatives.
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- An understanding Health Service including clinical governance in Primary Care.
- Commitment to support, develop and manage change.
- Evidence of good organisational and leadership skills
- Ability to offer clinical opinion on full range of primary medical conditions.
- Ability to take full and responsibility for the clinical care of patients.
- Good practical clinical skills.
- Proficient in assessing and treating minor injuries, including review of MSK X-rays and suturing.
- Full registration with the General Medical Council.
- Vocationally trained GP.
- Evidence of continual professional development.
- Membership of or working towards MRCGP.
- Experience and willingness to teaching juniors, support services professionals.
- Willing / able to attend appropriate training.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£80,000 a yearBased on Full Time (8 Clinical session per week)