Salaried GP Maternity CoverNHS

Job summary

Would you like to join a friendly, supportive and close knit team to provide high quality care to the local Redditch community? If so, come and join us!

We are looking for a 4 sessions per week maternity GP, for an initial 12 month temporary contract, to join our thriving, democratic and enthusiastic team at our surgery located in Redditch Town Centre on Mondays & Tuesdays. Redditch is located 15 miles south of Birmingham within easy reach of Stratford, Worcester and surrounding countryside with good transport links and an increasing and diverse population.

Main duties of the job

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

Job description

Clinical responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, 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
• 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
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• 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 the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

About us

About us/Our Team

Our team consists of 4 GP partners, 6 Salaried GPs, a Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician, 6 Nurses, a HCA and Phlebotomist supported by fantastic administrative and care navigation teams and PCN ARRS staff. We are passionate about teaching undergraduate students from Birmingham Medical School, FY2 Doctors and GP Trainees.

Why work with us?

We have excellent team morale with manageable, shared working patterns and weekly meetings. We offer a competitive salary with full reimbursement of Medical Defense fees. We encourage development and training and have monthly educational meetings. 6 weeks annual leave pro rata, 2 weeks paid CPD/Study leave pro rata and study/course budget.

Our ethos

If you are happy, the patients will be happy. We aim to get the right work-life balance whilst providing high quality patient centred care.

A bit more about us.

• Single site with Staff parking
• List size of circa 12,000 patients
• Training practice
• Rated Good in all areas by CQC
• We use EMIS Web and Docman