Job summary
We are looking for an Associate GP to join our energetic and diverse team in Kilburn, North West London.
Caring for around 22000 patients, our clinical team consists of 4 partners, 8 Associate GPs, 4 PAs, a paramedic, two pharmacists and a nursing team.
If you are looking for a dynamic multidisciplinary team and a stimulating learning environment in an area of London where you can truly make a difference to population health, Brondesbury Medical Centre is for you.
- £11-£12K per session according to experience
- Patients per routine session capped at 14, with double appointments for interpreters
- Sociable, joint duty sessions, with patient numbers also capped according to team capacity
- Admin light, with trained admin support for referrals, docman and prescriptions
- Strong training culture, with GP and PA trainees and medical students
- Weekly educational meetings
- Regular socials: book club, pot luck lunches, theatre trips and more
- Mentorship offered for career progression with opportunities to lead clinical areas in protected time.
- Health outreach bus as part of health inequalities project
- Excellent transport links
Main duties of the job
You will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the general practice. You will work with the multi-disciplinary general practice team of PA's, trainees and nursing staff to support the delivery of policy and procedures and meet the needs of our patients.
About us
Applications
are invited to join our dynamic, friendly, growing organisation serving a vibrant and culturally diverse
31,000 patient population in Camden.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
post-holder 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 and temporary patients.
Clinical
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
- Collecting
data for audit purposes
- 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
post-holder 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 and temporary patients.
Clinical
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
- Collecting
data for audit purposes
- 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
