GP - 6 mth maternity cover

About the Role

Botesdale Health Centre are looking for a professional, conscientious and highly effective GP to join our friendly team to cover maternity leave for 6 months. This position is offered on 6 8 sessions per week. 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.

Clinical Responsibilities

• 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.
• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self referenced or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Develop care plans in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.
• Provide counselling and health education.
• Admit or discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers as appropriate.
• Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collect data for audit purposes.
• Compile and issue computer generated acute and repeat prescriptions, avoiding hand written prescriptions whenever possible.
• Prescribe in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever clinically appropriate.
• Undertake all 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.
• Commitment to life long learning and audit to ensure evidence based best practice.
• Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.
• Contribute to the development of computer based patient records.
• Contribute to summarising of patient records and read coding patient data.
• Attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

About the Candidate

All applicants should have the following qualifications:

• Fully qualified GP with GMC registration.
• Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate).
• Be on the NHSE medical performers list.

and skills, including:

• Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services.
• Ability to take responsibility for your own career development, learning and performance and ensuring all mandatory training is in date.
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
• Commitment to life long learning and audit to ensure evidence based best practice.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner.

About Us

We are a rural GMS 10,000 patient surgery with 4 Partners, 6 Salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on site dispensary.

For more information please contact Donna Szukalski - Operations Manager -

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.