Salaried GP

Job summary

The ARRS funding has created a great opportunity for a GP who is newly qualified. The post-holder must be within 2 years of completing their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) and not previously been employed as a GP in General Practice. They will gain some experience working within a collaborative team in Halesowen. They will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered patients. This is a fixed term contract with the possibility of extending if ARRS funding is extended. We are looking for someone who wants to work between 4 and 8 sessions as week.

Main duties of the job

In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, clinical triage, 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

Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols

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

Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

Report and action appropriately on pathology reports, read and action all clinical letters via DOCMAN, and complete clinical audits

About us

We are a well-established surgery GP practice based in Halesowen serving a practice population of approximately 8200 patients. You will also have the opportunity to work at another local GP surgery in close proximity. We are part of the Halesowen Primary Care Network (PCN), working collaboratively with five other local practices to improve the health and wellbeing of our community.