Salaried GP

• 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, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

• 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, 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
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
• 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.

Essential

• Full Registration with the GMC and hold license to practice
• MRCGP / nMRCGP
• Eligible to work immediately as a GP in the UK
• Completed GP Registrar training
• On a GP Performers list

Essential

• UK GP NHS Experience including
• working with mental health patients
• health promotion and its implications
• Chronic Disease Management
• Paediatrics
• Obstetrics
• Understanding of Clinical Governance and
• quality issues
• Understanding of the role of teamwork in providing
• quality services
• Experience of participating in audit
• Experience in maintaining patients records at an acceptable standard for audit purposes