Gp, Doctor​/Physician

Exciting opportunity has arisen for a 5 session salaried GP to join our team at Bridgewater Surgeries. The role will be working across 4 sites with a working pattern of Wed/Thurs/Fri.

The post-holder will manage a caseload of patients and dealwith a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

This role will include:

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• A pro rata commitment of duty/on call sessions
• Domiciliary/Nursing home visits on a shared and demand basis
• Attendance at weekly lunchtime meetings (a mixture of MDT, staff and clinical meetings which will offer clinical education, SEA and can be used for appraisal purposes
• Alist of usual patients
• Debriefing Physicians Associates, trainees, medical students
• Ashare of extended hours allocation.

BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES

We are a large, dynamic training

Practice with a growing list size of over 36,000 patients across 4 sites.

About the practice:

13 Partners, 12 Salaried GPs along with a team of PA's, Nurses, HCA, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Admin

We are a training Practice for GP Registrars, Medical Students, Physician Associates.

Systm One users

Job summary:

The post-holder will manage a caseload and dealwith a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, thepost-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety ofduties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in atimely fashion
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs ofillness
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients andin line with current practice disease management protocols
• Providing counselling and health education
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing 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 thenormal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

• Qualified GP
• MRCGP
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent
• General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.