Posted 13 days ago
Description
Salaried GP post at Norwood Surgery, with 3 partners, 4 salaried GPs, 3 nurses and around 10,000 patients. The work covers surgery and telephone consultations, home visits, repeat prescribing, care plans and referrals. It is a training practice with a focus on social prescribing and lifestyle medicine, offered for 6 to 8 sessions a week. A CCT is required, along with DBS and occupational health clearance.
What the job involves
- Surgery and telephone consultations, plus home visits, in line with the practice timetable
- Managing a caseload covering a wide range of health needs in primary care
- Making autonomous clinical decisions on presenting problems, including self-referrals and referrals from other staff
- Assessing undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and screening for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
- Developing care plans in line with practice disease management protocols
- Compiling computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, prescribing from the formulary where clinically appropriate
- Checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing promptly with queries, paperwork and correspondence
- Admitting and discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers
- Providing counselling and health education
- Recording clear consultation notes to agreed standards
- Collecting audit data and contributing to evaluation, audit and clinical standard setting
- Contributing to computer-based patient records, including summarising records and Read-coding
Qualifications
- CCT as a General Practitioner
Experience
- Experience of audit and of leading audit programmes
- Experience of clinical risk management
- Experience leading projects with CQC, CCG and QOF
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent written and oral communication, with a clear, polite telephone manner
- Strong IT skills, including EMIS Web, Outlook and Office
- Effective time management and planning
- Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
- Problem solving and analytical skills
Checks & eligibility
- Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- Occupational health clearance
Other
- Ability to work in a team and autonomously
- Flexibility to work outside core office hours
- Ability to work under pressure and in stressful situations
- Empathy in distressing situations
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
What’s offered
- High levels of support and training for all staff, including GP registrars
- Daily coffee time for discussing interesting or challenging cases and group feedback
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