Salaried GP and Long-term Locum GP

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

We are looking for Long-term Locum GP's and Salaried GP.

Are you looking to join a friendly, nurturing and dynamic practice in Hackney, East London? We are proud to excel in our clinical outcomes and are very proud of working in City and Hackney which has a history of valuing and investing in primary care. We are a training practice for undergraduate students, GPs and practice nurse trainees and we value supporting all clinicians and staff to grow and develop.

Main duties of the job

We are a friendly, supportive and innovative team in a large training Practice (15,000+ patients). We have many salaried doctors and trainees as well as a fantastic nursing and HCA team. We have innovative PCN roles such as a vocational OT, mental health worker, a fantastic team of clinical pharmacists and First Contact Physiotherapists as well as a dynamic wellbeing team. We are a 6 Partner Practice of which one is our Lead Nurse and another is our experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner.

We value developing and supporting people. We offer regular mentor sessions with a GP partner, daily case discussion opportunities and regular meetings including monthly education sessions.

Job responsibilities

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self 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.
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health.
• 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.
• 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.
• Completing clinical templates resulting from QOF and LSC requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.