GP Wallington

Job summary

Are you a skilled and compassionate doctor looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? We are seeking talented doctors to join our growing multi-disciplinary team across two sites.

We are dedicated to providing high quality healthcare services to our diverse patient population and we offer an innovative and supportive work environment that values teamwork, professional development and patient-centered care.

We offer a competitive sessional rate and we are flexible to applicants wanting to work between 4 and 8 sessions pw. We are flexible to consider long term locums as well as salaried positions.

Our fantastic package includes:

• Full indemnity cover
• NHS Pension
• 6 weeks annual leave & one-week study leave pro rata
• Supportive work environment fostering professional growth and development and including leadership and SPIN fellowship opportunities
• Regular clinical meetings
• Portfolio diversification opportunities including developing clinical and training specialist interests
• Excellent working environment in well maintained and equipped premises
• Collaborative and diverse team of healthcare professionals

Key responsibilities:

• Delivering exceptional healthcare to patients, diagnosing and treating a wide range of medical conditions
• Collaborating within the multi-disciplinary team to ensure comprehensive, co-ordinated and high quality patient care
• Participating in clinical meetings, case discussions, and continuous professional development activities
• Adhering to best practice guidelines, ethical standards and regulatory requirements
• Contributing to quality improvement initiatives and promoting a culture of excellence
• Flexibility to provide a mix of telephone and face to face patient appointments

We are a forward thinking partnership, who appreciates the need for work/life balance, clinical supervision and support. We also support flexible scheduling options.

We are supported by our local Training Hub to ensure our staff have access to excellent training and development opportunities and we are keen to support portfolio working arrangements.

We are fully engaged with our local Primary Care Networks, including provision of localised services and we host at one of our sites some of the Sutton borough extended access services.

In accordance with the practice timetable, the post-holder will undertake a variety of duties, including;

• face to face consultations, telephone consultations and answering queries
• visiting patients at home
• checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries relating to medicines management
• dealing with 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 professionals
• 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
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• Prescribing in accordance with the local 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
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting
• Using appropriate templates and protocols to ensure the correct summarising, recording and read coding of patient records
• 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