Salaried GP (6 sessions per week (8 Sessions is FTE) – Long Eaton Health Care
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Salaried GP
6 sessions per week (8 Sessions is FTE)
Primarily based at the Golden Brook Practice site in Long Eaton Health Centre.
Job Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Practice as a salaried GP due to our popularity and consistently rising list size.
We are an established training practice with consistently high QOF achievement. We encourage innovation in developing new models of care. You will enjoy support from a large clinical team, and dedicated management colleagues. All Salaried GPs are allocated a Mentor. For those who have partnership aspirations, we offer routes to partnership and have a unique development programme.
We will provide you with the high-quality support you need to continue developing your skills, spend quality time with your patients and make a real difference to people’s lives whilst obtaining job satisfaction.
Practice Summary
The Golden Brook Practice and Park View Medical Centre are a recently merged practice and will become known as West Park Surgery. With an Outstanding CQC rating at the Golden Brook site and a Good rating at Park View, we are a secure, successful and forward looking practice.
The GP Partners hold key leadership positions in the PCN and the ICS and can provide a wealth of opportunity and experience to other members of the team.
We are part of Erewash Health Partnership and have access to a wide range of networked services including home visiting, care home support team, pharmacists, social prescribers and first contact physios. We offer all core services as well as minor surgery and contraceptive services.
Education remains an important part of the ethos of the practice and we train registrars, medical students, non-medical prescribers as well as supporting apprentices from the local community. This culture of continuous improvement and development is core to who we are. Regular clinical meetings across both sites, network learning events and an allocated mentor mean that we create a safe and supportive environment.
Job 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
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 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, PCN or other agencies, where appropriate
