General Practitioner; GP

This is an exciting opportunity for a General Practitioner to join our clinical team. Crawcrook Medical Centre is a growing practice of 20,500 patients. We have well managed branch surgeries at Rowlands Gill Medical Centre, Grange Road Medical Practice, and Blaydon GP Led Practice. Our clinical team have bi‑weekly clinical meetings and meet regularly during coffee breaks to support each other.

We have excellent support from a wider team including physios, counsellors, adult and children, health and well‑being coach, care navigators, community link workers, as well as a document management team who process all incoming letters supported by Medicine Management Team who action any medication request and deal with queries. Our sessional rate is based on full time hours over 4 days.

• Each session includes 14 face‑to‑face 15‑minute appointments and completion of related clinical administration.
• Fair share of visits when required (normally completed by Nurse Practitioners).
• Fair share of bloods, tasks and medical reports (part‑completed by non‑clinical staff).
• Assist completion of the urgent clinical task group and routine clinical task group.
• Provide high quality patient care.
• Provide face‑to‑face and telephone consultations as required.
• Effectively utilise in‑house and external services when needed.
• Complete all clinical administration work related to patients seen.
• Work collaboratively and contribute to the management and completion of general clinical administration, including bloods, tasks, urgent enquiries, medical reports, etc.
• Attend and contribute to clinical practice meetings as required.
• Ensure that each patient encounter is maximised to attain contractual target requirements.
• Utilise EMIS clinical system.
• Consult with patients face‑to‑face and by telephone as required.
• Undertake home visits when required, supported by Rapid Response Team.
• Prescribe, refer, treat and advise patients as required.
• Respond to clinical queries from the wider team.
• Contribute to completion of the clinical task group.
• Complete medical reports as and when required (shared out across the team).
• Provide support to the wider clinical team including being available to our highly experienced ANPs when required.
• Other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time.

The Fuller and Forbes Partnership is a primary care provider with practices currently in Leeds, Burnley, Gateshead and Devon. The organisation provides care to 56,000 patients using a diversified clinical team consisting of on‑the‑ground paramedics, ANPs, ACPs, Clinical Pharmacists, and a nursing team, with clinical supervision and mentorship by GPs. The organisation is patient‑driven and has used patient feedback in the past to develop innovative services such as a bespoke smart phone app, patient‑centred practice websites, joint working with the third sector and a bespoke e‑consultation service.

The e‑consultation service is accessible through both the smart phone app and website and has provided over 33,000 e‑consultations in the last 2 years. The organisation currently receives around 70‑100 e‑consults per day across all sites.

• Medical degree.
• Full registration with GMC.
• Desirable GP registrar training.
• Completion of GP vocational training.