GP; Sessions

Pontardawe Primary Care Centre is a friendly, forward thinking training practice within the Upper Valleys cluster of Swansea Bay University Health Board.

We are looking to recruit a Salaried GP for 6 sessions a week to add to our close-knitteam.

The practice consists of 4 GP partners, 4 salaried GPs, Practice Business Manager, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Physician Associate, 2 registrar's, 4 practice nurses, health caresupport workers and a dedicated team of administrative staff, including Pharmacy Technicians. We are now looking to offer an opportunity for the right candidate to join our team inorder to further improve the quality of care offered to our 13,500 strongpatient population.

We are seeking a salaried GP for 6 sessions a week. We boast the advantage of operating our large practice from a Single site with a mixture of face to face (15 minute) appointments and Telephone Appointments. We also encourage opportunities to help develop key services through identification and enablement of special interests. We operate on the EMIS clinical system, have EPS fully enabled and embedded and offer a very competitive salary.

We will provide clinical and pastoral support, mentorship and learning opportunities to help integration into our team.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post;
English and/ or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

The post-holder will:

Assistin the delivery and provision of General Medical Services, Enhanced Services,and work with the GP Collaborative, in accordance with the GMS and other practice contracts. Continuing professional development opportunities, andregular practice meetings.

Make him/her-self available to undertakea variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations,visiting patients at home and in nursing homes, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in atimely fashion.

Be required to be on-call forclinically urgent and emergency problems and consequently be included in the doctors on-call- rota.

Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whet herself-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

Coverall the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate includinginitiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate

Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current

Practice disease management protocols as well as wider guidance such as thatfrom NICE

Play a role in the practice achieving QIF/Collaborative priorities and other key performance indicator targets.

Located just off the M4 near Swansea, Pontardawe Primary Care Centre is a friendly and high achieveing training practice. Having recently undergone refurbishment and expansion, the building is now modern and enables the practice to grow it's already significant workforce to help achieve our aim of providing high level patient care to our 13,500 strong patient population.

The practice has recognised the important role MDT plays in primary care and has been able to successfully blend it's MDT approach to an already established GP presence within the practice, which this post seeks to enhance.

The practice is ambitious and is keen to keep moving forward in innovative ways to help manage demand and enhance patient and employee experience.

As a training practice we currently house 2 GP registrars and offer significant CPD opportunities to incumbent staff to promote self development.

We welcome prospective candidates for an informal chat with the clinical, administrative and management team along with a tour of the practice.

A formal job plan will be designed and agreed with the successful candidate. However, the following generic duties are expected within the role:

Clinical Responsibilities:

Thepost-holder will:

Makehim/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home and innursing homes, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Berequired to be on-call for clinically urgent and emergency problems andconsequently be included in the doctors on-call- rota.

Berequired to make home visits whenoncall or duty Dr within the sessiontime specified

Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whet herself-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Coverall the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate includinginitiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate

Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current

Practice disease…