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Job summary

Railway Medical Group has an exciting opportunity to join our highly regarded Northumberland-based training practice as a salaried GP. 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 registered and temporary patients.

We are offering 1 session per week on a Monday Evening which will be 5pm - 8pm.

• A salary starting of £12,880.00 per year x 1 session
• 6 weeks annual leave plus 1 week study leave
• NHS pension
• Recognition of previous NHS years of service as continuous, for the purposes of maternity and sick pay entitlement

Working for Railway, you can expect:

• Your clinics will have 14 appointment's 12 of which will be face-to-face patient contacts plus 2 telephone patient contacts.
• Reduced admin so you can concentrate on clinical responsibilities. Letters are pre-screened and coded, blood test results are pre-screened and filtered
• Our medicines management team and strong reception and admin teams to support you
• Our full support to specialise in a subject of interest to you

Railway Medical Group is a large, busy teaching practice with a patient list of 27,100. We have built a multi-disciplinary team of GP Partners & Salaried GPs, Paramedics, ANPs, CPNs, Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Social Prescribers. Our patient-facing teams are fully supported by our administrative and management teams. Operating across four sites, our main site is purpose-built and houses all our GPs and admin support staff.

We are an innovative practice; investing in and improving our Patient Navigation systems, offering e-Consults and appointments with ANPs, Pharmacists and Social Prescribers where appropriate, reducing the pressure on our GP team wherever possible. Our in-house acute service picks up same day cases, further reducing the stresses of normal GP life.

Our Practice Special Interests include research, minor surgery, womens health, dermatology, joint injections, teaching, LMC, PCN and ICB active membership.

Blyth is a large coastal town with an economically diverse population, making our practice a busy and at times challenging place to work. Blyth offers affordable housing with significant investment in improving transport links to Newcastle and beyond.

Wider Northumberland is famous for beautiful beaches, impressive castles and sprawling countryside. Nearby Newcastle offers fantastic shopping and entertainment to suit all tastes.

Job Title:
Salaried General Practitioner - Hybrid Remote

Reports to:
The GP Partners (Clinically) & The Managing Partner (Administratively)

Hours: 6-8 Sessions, including a combination of on-site and remote working

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 careful for all registered and temporary patients.

The post will include a combination of on-site and remote working.

Clinical 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, e-consultations, actioning and filing chronic disease blood tests, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking, and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Actioning blood test results ordered by other clinicians where required for example to cover absences
• 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…