Salaried GPNHS

Job summary

We are recruiting to replace one of our salaried GPs. Applications welcome from both experienced and newly qualified GPs. We can be flexible in the number of sessions but we are ideally looking for a minimum of 6-7.

The role will include on call duties and Extended Access one set evening per week.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a GP who shares our values of offering high quality patient centred care.

The GP role will require variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, clinical triage and on call duties, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.

Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care 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 of illness

Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.

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.

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.

Report and action appropriately on pathology reports, read and action all clinical letters via DOCMAN, and complete clinical audits.

Support and supervise ARRS staff (e.g. first contact practitioners, paramedics, pharmacy team, care co-ordinators).

Job description

The Salaried GP will:

• Provide a mixture of telephone and face to face consultations with some multi-site working
• On call duties
• Treat acute and chronic conditions
• Referrals as clinically needed
• Participate in workflow/document management, prescription requests and queries
• Medical reports
• Participate in quality improvement and practice meetings
• See Job Description for further detail.

About us

Our team cares for 10,000 patients and consists of 3 Partners, 6 Salaried GPs, 3 Practice Nurses, 1 Nurse Associate and 1 Healthcare Assistant. We are a training practice for GP Registrars. We have an excellent team of administrative staff to offer support and assistance to both our clinicians and our patients. We have a fantastically friendly team ethic and and encourage a team approach in everything we do.

We are supported by the district nursing team and health visitors who are based within Halesowen.

We have a range of PCN services to support our population needs.

We use Emis Web and Docman.