General Practitioner - Pontardawe Primary Care Centre

The post-holder will:

• Assist in 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, and regular practice meetings.
• Make themselves available to undertake a 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 a timely fashion.
• Be required to be on-call for clinically urgent and emergency problems and consequently be included in the doctors on-call rota.
• Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate including initiating 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 that from NICE.
• Play a role in the practice achieving QIF/ Collaborative priorities and other key performance indicator targets.

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.

Pontardawe Primary Care Centre is a friendly and forward thinking practice within the Upper Valleys cluster of Swansea Bay University Health Board. We are looking to recruit into our close-knit team. The practice consists of 4 GP partners, 3 salaried GPs, Practice Business Manager, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, 3 practice nurses, a Pharmacist-led pharmacy team, health care support workers and a dedicated team of administrative staff.

We are now looking to offer an opportunity for the right candidate to join our team in order to further improve the quality of care offered to our 13,500 strong patient 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.