Salaried General Practitioner

• Flexible working with 4-8 sessions
• Weekly out-of-hospital ward rounds in community settings
• Protected mentoring and peer support
• Opportunities to develop portfolio interests
• Strong administrative and managerial backing
• AI-enabled workflows that reduce administrative burden
• Automated recalls, monitoring and efficient shared-care processes
• Total triage with an emphasis on continuity
• A collaborative, sociable team culture
• An environment that values innovation, kindness, curiosity and laughter

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including F2F & Tel 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 Practice
• 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
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• 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.

• 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 practice
• 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.

• 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.

Essential

• A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003 - Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983 - Qualified General Practitioner - Currently on performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register - DBS clearance - Have had an annual NHS appraisal

Desirable

• Evidence of further postgraduate educational activities in relevant fields - MRCGP - DCH - DRCOG - RCGP Substance Misuse Certificate Level 1 or 2 - F2 supervisor training/teaching diploma (this is essential for HDS) - DFSRFH & Competence in Coil insertion - Evidence of CPD activities