Gp, Doctor​/Physician

We are looking for a 4 to 6 session Salaried GP to join our team at Bosvena Health, with an opportunity for partnership.

Job summary:

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 patients.

• 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
• 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 health education and support

• 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 or other agencies, where appropriate.

• 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 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.

• Medical Doctor - GMC registered

• Experience of work within General Practice post qualification

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.