PCN GP

Wouldyou like to join our friendly and resolute team of clinicians andnon-clinicians at a large NHS general practice based in Slough, Berkshire?

We are looking for a motivated and hard-working newqualified GP to join our team on a 6 month fixed contract. You will have the opportunity to work in a supportive and collaborative environment, with adiverse committed workforce from different ethnic backgrounds ensuring the quality of our services to our patients are to a high standard.

You will be part of a team of eleven salaried

GPs (FRMG & PCN SPINE), who along with eleven GP Partners, are responsible for providing the full range of NHS General/Primary Medical services to our patients across all our four sites. This will include providing consultations, diagnosis,treatment, referral as appropriate, and prescribing medication. You would bebased at Farnham Road Practicebut would be expected to travel to our other sites within Slough, to be involved in the wider running of the practice, such as participating in clinical meetings and contributing to the development of new services.

• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• To promote and maintain optimum health of the registered patient population of FRMG by identifying, planning, and undertaking specific health promotional activities with identified individuals and target groups to improve their health and facilitate further service development.
• 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 triage, video & electronic message consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, on-call/duty work, extended hours sessions.
• checking and signing prescriptions
• dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required in a timely fashion including but not limited to:
• Electronic Prescription Services (EPS)
• Checking and signing of repeat prescriptions (where EPS does not apply)
• Safeguarding reports
• Dealing with EMIS queries/tasks
• Patient medical reports and examinations (e.g., for insurance companies)
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice or local prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.

Farnham Road Medical Group (FRMG) started as one Practice with two sitesand has grown over the years into an outstanding group of three training GP practices that are approved by Health Education England. With four clinical sites based in Slough, we now have a team of over 100 people looking after 38,730patients. The practice and PCN (SPINE) are committed to innovation in providing high-quality health care for our patients and a protected working and learning environment for our staff.

Our team includes pharmacists, nurses, physicianassociates, paramedics, MSK practitioners, Mental Health Practitioners,managers, social prescribers, and care coordinators as well as GPs and a large

Patient Services team. This resolute team provides an evolving healthcare and medical service to meet the varying needs of our patients and, in turn, provideswhat we believe is a sustainable model of modern General Practice. We have expanded our expertise and have transformed how we provide medical services totry to ensure we meet the demands of Sloughs diverse population.

Our vision is simple:
Caring for patients, looking after our staff and providing services that tailor to their needs, which we strive to achieve through brilliant leadership,mentoring, teamwork, communication, problem sharing and solving, support,integrity, fun, training, education, and continued development.

To provide the full range of NHS General/Primary Medical Services to the patients registered to the Practices within SPINE Primary Care network, temporary residents and patients presenting for immediately necessary treatment including clinical examination, diagnosis, treatment and referral as appropriate.

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will…