Salaried GP - newly qualified or experienced
Salaried GP - newly qualified or experienced
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Job Description
Lakenheath Surgery is a small friendly semi-rural part dispensing effective and well-organised GMS practice with currently 5500 registered patients. This partner owned GMS (General Medical Services) practice has a stable list size and works through partnership and collaboration to provide patients with joined-up solutions which meet the needs of its semi-rural demographics.
We are now looking to recruit a salaried GP for 4 to 6 sessions per week with a view to offering a future partnership for experienced applicants. We are open to the level of experience and can discuss at interview our competitive salary and extremely flexible working pattern to meet our needs and your requirements.
The successful candidate will be supported by a multidisciplinary team including paramedic practice nurses HCA social prescribers health and wellbeing coach first contact MSK physiotherapist virtual pharmacists and a clinical pharmacist as well as highly trained dispensing and administration staff.
There is an empathetic management style described as GP traditional non-hierarchical informal flexible and functional with a strong sense of community and it is very important to the partners that this is maintained and developed. Whilst being clinically driven the practice also performs well financially and presents as a strongly democratic happy and balanced team with good communication between the clinical team partners and administration teams.
We have recently transitioned to a triage system that is designed to enable GPs to have improved oversight of both acute and routine appointments. Home visits are very few and as a small practice we know our patients very well and continue to provide a caring service based on continuity of care.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to support and care for a diverse patient role will include all general duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care including:- Undertaking 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 reports and correspondence in a timely fashion;
- Making professional autonomous decisions in relation to presenting medical problems whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation;
- Assessing the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems;
- Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness;
- Developing care plans for health inconsultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols;
- Providing health education;
- Recording clear consultation notes to agreed standards;
- Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements;
- Delivering enhanced services;
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
About the Candidate
- Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management and primary prevention and screening services;
- Ability to take responsibility for your own career development learning and performance and are responsible for ensuring that all your mandatory training is in date;
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines e.g. prescribing confidentiality data protection health and safety;
- Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner.
- Knowledge of System One would be advantageous but full training will be given.
About Us
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
