Gp, Doctor​/Physician

Job summary

Stuart Road Surgery is continuing its journey through a period of transformation and we are inviting applications for a salaried GP to join our expanding clinical team to deliver excellent patient care. Newly qualified GP's are welcome to apply, as are those requiring tier 2 sponsorship. We are considering applications from those who are looking for 4 to 6 sessions per week.

Salary will be competitive, but dependent upon experience. Please include indication salary expectations when applying.

We are looking for a GP to cover morning and afternoon sessions. This will include home visits and Duty (On-call) rota as required.

We are a Systm One practice.

Salary will be extremely competitive and negotiable dependent upon experience.

Additional skills such as joint injections and minor surgery would be desirable, but are not essential.

Stuart Road Surgery is a GP and nurse training practice with a patient list size of around 7000 patients, and conveniently located on the edge of Pontefract town centre.

Our clinical team comprises of 2 x GP Partners, 6 x Salaried GP's, 2 x Practice nurses and 1 x HCA along with a team of external staff employed by our Primary Care Network. Our admin team comprises of a around 13 dedicated and supportive admin / reception staff along with our Practice / business manager and Operations Manager.

We strive to achieve excellence and are continually developing and improving our surgery.

In accordance with the working arrangements, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake clinical sessions.

They will be expected to:

• Provide surgery consultations, telephone consultations and home visits
• Check and sign repeat prescriptions
• Deal with queries, both over the telephone and in person
• Handle paperwork and correspondence within the practice guidelines
• Make professional and autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems whether these are self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Assess the health care needs of patients who have undifferentiated or undiagnosed problems
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Consult with patients in line with current practice disease management protocols to develop care plans for health
• Provide counselling and health education
• Admit or discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer them to other care providers as appropriate
• Record consultation notes clearly and contemporaneously within agreed standards
• Collect data for audit purposes
• Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible
• Prescribe in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, or generically, whenever this is clinically appropriate

In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

The post-holder will be expected to:

• Work as part of the team to ensure Quality and Outcome Framework (QoF) and other local targets are met
• Ensure all clinical information obtained from patients and other health and social care providers is fully coded utilising systems and processes in place at any given time
• Take fair share of non-patient facing work including results, letters for example
• Remain on site throughout duration of session
• Attend and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings
• Participate in the evaluation and audit of clinical and patient services
• Participate in further development in services provided
• Engage in fostering relationships with other local practices and NHS trusts
• Be aware of and…