Salaried GP
Watling Medical Centre
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Job summary
Watling Medical Centre with its two sites is looking for a salaried GP for 4 sessions per week. We know that many of you are concerned about the pressures in taking up a post in General Practice. We would like to encourage you to join us and fight for General Practice.
We are here because we enjoy providing continuity of care, developing meaningful relationships with our patients and have a good working relationship with our staff and colleagues. We have weekly supervision sessions to discuss any clinical problems and we enjoy coming to work. Our clinical workload is shared equally amongst Partners and salaried doctors. We have a high retention of our registrars becoming salaried or partner GPs, and have an informal mentorship to support recent graduates.
If you join us, you are welcome to become involved in training nurses, medical students and registrars, take part in our QIP projects or get involved with our Primary care network, Barnet Federated GPs, Training hub (former CEPN - community education provider networks) or NCL ICB activity.
Main duties of the job
In accordance with the practice's rota the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including but not limited to:
Face to face and telephone appointments and management of online consultations and queries and visiting patients at home;
Checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. 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
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 and developing care plans for health management;
Providing counselling and health education
Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
Completion of medical reports (including NHS and private services as required)
In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
About us
Watling Medical Centre is a well-established 5 GP Partners general practice with over 17,000 registered patients spread over two sites. The practice was established at the beginning of the 20th century and has a long training heritage. Watling Medical Centre is well known for its high clinical standards and being a friendly place to work. We have always been proud of being a part of the local community, having long standing staff members and being one of the largest training practices in Barnet.
We are also a part of a very active Primary Care Network employing number of associate medical professionals.
Date posted
06 January 2023
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
A0893-23-1593
Job locations
108 Watling Avenue
Edgware
Middlesex
HA8 0NR
42 London Road
Stanmore
Middlesex
HA7 4NU
Employer details
Employer name
Watling Medical Centre
Address
108 Watling Avenue
Edgware
Middlesex
HA8 0NR
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