Posted 11 days ago
Description
A permanent salaried GP post at Charlbury Medical Centre, a dispensing practice serving a rural Cotswolds area of about 5,500 patients. The work centres on face-to-face and telephone consultations for undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions, alongside a personal caseload, prescribing and referrals. The post covers four sessions a week with 25 fifteen-minute appointments in each, minimal home visits, on-call sessions and a research-active practice. Fit depends on GMC registration, a CCT and MRCGP, and a place on the National Performers List.
What the job involves
- Consult face to face and by telephone or online on undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
- Manage a personal caseload, admitting and discharging patients and ensuring continuity of care
- Carry out clinical assessments, develop care plans, and provide counselling and health education
- Prescribe in line with national and practice guidelines, issuing computer-generated prescriptions and checking repeats
- Request, interpret and act on diagnostic tests and results
- Make referrals to secondary and community care
- Screen for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
- Visit patients at home where needed, keeping home visits to a minimum
- Complete correspondence, NHS and private medical reports, and accurate clinical records on EMIS Web, AccuRx and Docman 10
- Take part in clinical audit, quality improvement, QOF and contract targets, and practice meetings, contributing to service development
- Work with partners, salaried GPs, nurses, HCAs, paramedics, pharmacists, physiotherapists, social prescribers and mental health practitioners
- Support teaching, training and development, and comply with safeguarding, confidentiality, health and safety, infection control and practice policies
What’s required
Qualifications
- Full GMC registration
- Fully qualified GP with CCT and MRCGP
Registration & licences
- Placement on the National Performers List
- Eligibility to practise independently in the UK
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Competent IT skills
- EMIS Web
- Docman
- Works independently and as part of a team
Checks & eligibility
- UK driving licence
Nice to have
- Coils and implants
- Educational GP Trainer
- Interest in research
- Qualified in pessary fitting and removal
- Minor surgery
What’s offered
- 6 weeks annual leave pro rata
- 1 week study leave pro rata
- Opportunities to contribute to research and take on lead roles
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