Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, flexible, and proactive GP to join our innovative, friendly, progressive, and supportive team. This would be an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified or experienced GP.
What do you get from us?
This is your opportunity to work in a traditional family practice, with a friendly, supportive team, who are forward-thinking, enthusiastic, and open to new ideas and changes. Our practice, and its location, lends itself to a wonderful quality of life with easy access to the coast and beautiful surrounding villages.
Encouragement, support, flexibility & a business that listens, and wants you to succeed & develop. We are a well-established Practice with GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners Practice Nurses, HCAs, GPA, Pharmacists, Physio, an experienced dispensary, reception, and admin team.
We have strong relationships with the PCN, including a community rehabilitation team, district nurses, an integrated frailty team, pharmacy technicians and have access to the local community hospital but are not required to staff it.
Monthly virtual ward meetings and close contact with hospice nurses for palliative care patients, means we have multidisciplinary input as needed. We have a daily catch up over coffee and as a small practice it is easy to discuss patients with colleagues.
Applications from newly qualified and experienced GPs welcomed
Main duties of the job
We are offering four clinical sessions over 2 days. We feel that work-life balance is paramount & as part of healthy work-life balance, GPs have a mixture of 15 minute face-to-face appointments, 10 minute phone-calls & a maximum of 22 appointments per day, less than the current BMA recommendations. There will be no out-of-hours commitment & extended hours are run by the PCN. There will be involvement in the duty doctor rota, in hours.
The duty day mon-fri is run by our two fantastic ANPs, freeing the routine slots up for GPs. So, duty GP mon-thurs really involves actioning anything urgent, but otherwise running a routine surgery. The friday duty is on an alternating rota with the salaried GPs.
We have been building a fantastic team of clinicians & a highly skilled practice team in the last year and would welcome salaried GP to our team!
The Practice Boasts.
- Recent Good rating from CQC January 2025
- A positive, supportive, non-hierarchical, family friendly atmosphere
- We have a traditional General Practice ethos that is patient-centred with a strong focus on continuity of care, & we embrace new technologies that improve efficiency & quality of care.
- An onsite dispensary
- A purpose-built building with onsite car parking
- High achieving in QOF & Enhanced Services
Informal enquiries & visits encouraged please contact Dr Rachael Allen 01308 861938 or rachael.allen@dorsetgp.nhs.uk
Please apply with your current CV
Barton House Medical Practice, Beaminster, Dorset
About us
Our practice, and its location, lends itself to a wonderful quality of life. Easy access to the coast and beautiful surrounding villages. Strong emphasis on work life balance.
We are a small friendly practice of 5100 patients, with the added benefit of being a dispensing practice. GP administration burden has been reduced through an in-house workflow administrator who processes all paperwork for scanning and coding. In addition, we have additional remote GP telephone appointments, as well as an in-house clinical pharmacist and first contact physio provided through the PCN.
- Currently one GP partner, two salaried GPs (6 sessions each) and one regular locum (1 session)2 Advanced nurse practitioners (4 sessions each)
- List size 5100
- Dispensing practice
- A competitive financial package 11k per session
- Our contracts based on the BMA guidelines.
- Coverage of medical indemnity by the Practice.
- NHS Pension scheme enrolment
- 6 Weeks holiday, 1 week study leave
- Experienced Practice Nurse, HCA, and GPA
- Fully computerised
- Consistently high QOF achievement and enhanced services
- Local Community Hospital (access to MIU and Xray)
- No Out of Hours responsibility
- Daily GP coffee catch ups for a chat, clinical discussions, or case sharing.
- Fortnightly whole staff meetings for staff morale/ address any staff issues.
- Access to pharmacist, first contact physio and social prescribers
- Systems in Use: SystmOne, AccuRx (including floreys), C the signs, e-Consult
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the salaried GP. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- Consultations, administration, complying with the practices contract type (for example, GMS/PMS/APMS),
- Education and training delivery, and private contracts.
Key responsibilities clinical
Caring for patients
- Practice evidence-based medicine, in line with national and locally agreed guidelines
- Conduct patient consultations during the practices clinical appointment hours
- Triage patients presenting to the practice in person, via eConsult and by telephone (if covering the on call in ANP absence or part of GP duty rota)
- Conduct telephone consultations and home visits as appropriate (very minimal visits at surgery 0-1 on average)
- Check and sign repeat prescription requests.
- Check, manage and process patient test results for your patient list/requests
- Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines.
- Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional interventions as appropriate.
- Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems.
- Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing advice, generally encouraging patients to follow a healthy lifestyle.
- Carry out patient testing and screening as required.
- Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients health needs.
- Develop and implement practice guidelines, policies, and procedures (if appropriate).
Communication with patients
- Use communication that is appropriate to the situation, including communicating sensitively with patients and carers when delivering bad news.
- Establish appropriate communication methods to suit patients and carers level of understanding, cultural/language needs, and preferred communication method.
- Anticipate and overcome barriers to communication and seek support from other staff members where necessary.
- Use appropriate communication skills and style to make patients aware of risk, to obtain consent where necessary, and to ensure patients comply with treatment.
- Delivering high-quality services
- Provide services to the practices patient population, to the highest possible standard, in line with competencies and professional code of conduct.
- Monitor and maintain the standard of care provided, taking appropriate action if standards are not met, through self- and peer-review, benchmarking, and evaluation.
- Lead and undertake clinical governance and clinical audit activities to ensure the continual improvement of service delivery (if appropriate).
- Participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant events and other shared learning activities within a structured framework.
- Support and mentor staff in training to ensure they deliver the highest standards of care.
- Support the performance of team members and collaborate in improving the quality of healthcare and service provision, in line with local and national policy and strategy.
- Work within the practices legal framework for identifying vulnerable patients and apply policies relating to treatment of vulnerable patients.
Key responsibilities non-clinical
- Develop and nurture professional and collaborative working relationships with all staff and external stakeholders.
- Ensure the practice and all staff follow best practice, as set out in clinical guidelines, and identified through audits.
- Identify opportunities to improve existing processes and develop new ones, both in the practice and those involving external agencies and stakeholders
- Develop and maintain systems to ensure the efficient running of the practice, such as those to manage staff training, performance, clinical governance, finance, IT, complaints, and equality and diversity.
- Action and refer concerns and issues as appropriate.
- Practice-related duties
- Process medical reports, referrals, and correspondence
- Record and collect data for audit purposes.
- Make timely, clear, computer-based records of consultations and contact with patients.
- Maintain administrative records relating to the practice contract, enhanced services and QOF.
- Contribute to providing a supportive environment for other staff through informal catchups and contact.
- Attend and contribute to in-house meetings, including clinical, educational/training-related and administrative meetings.
- Attend meetings and events held by external agencies and stakeholders if appropriate.
- Contribute to teaching and training clinical staff as appropriate.
- Personal and professional development of self and others
- Comply with the GMC Code of Conduct
- Prepare for and complete annual external appraisals.
- Prepare for and complete revalidation process.
- Act as a mentor and positive role model to all members of staff, both clinical and non-clinical, sharing information and good practice
- Prioritise own workload and collaborate with others to delegate and prioritise team and practice workload.
- Undertake training as required to ensure competencies for delivering all responsibilities, to meet personal, statutory and practice education and learning needs, including keeping records of learning, reflection, complaints, and feedback.
- Keep up to date with current evidence-based approaches to patient care and service delivery, in line with NICE and the National Service Framework
- Lead and contribute to education activities, such as reviewing significant events, clinical audit, protected learning time,, etc.
- Contribute to education and training of trainee clinical staff and students (if requested)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the salaried GP. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- Consultations, administration, complying with the practices contract type (for example, GMS/PMS/APMS),
- Education and training delivery, and private contracts.
Key responsibilities clinical
Caring for patients
- Practice evidence-based medicine, in line with national and locally agreed guidelines
- Conduct patient consultations during the practices clinical appointment hours
- Triage patients presenting to the practice in person, via eConsult and by telephone (if covering the on call in ANP absence or part of GP duty rota)
- Conduct telephone consultations and home visits as appropriate (very minimal visits at surgery 0-1 on average)
- Check and sign repeat prescription requests.
- Check, manage and process patient test results for your patient list/requests
- Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines.
- Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional interventions as appropriate.
- Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems.
- Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing advice, generally encouraging patients to follow a healthy lifestyle.
- Carry out patient testing and screening as required.
- Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients health needs.
- Develop and implement practice guidelines, policies, and procedures (if appropriate).
Communication with patients
- Use communication that is appropriate to the situation, including communicating sensitively with patients and carers when delivering bad news.
- Establish appropriate communication methods to suit patients and carers level of understanding, cultural/language needs, and preferred communication method.
- Anticipate and overcome barriers to communication and seek support from other staff members where necessary.
- Use appropriate communication skills and style to make patients aware of risk, to obtain consent where necessary, and to ensure patients comply with treatment.
- Delivering high-quality services
- Provide services to the practices patient population, to the highest possible standard, in line with competencies and professional code of conduct.
- Monitor and maintain the standard of care provided, taking appropriate action if standards are not met, through self- and peer-review, benchmarking, and evaluation.
- Lead and undertake clinical governance and clinical audit activities to ensure the continual improvement of service delivery (if appropriate).
- Participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant events and other shared learning activities within a structured framework.
- Support and mentor staff in training to ensure they deliver the highest standards of care.
- Support the performance of team members and collaborate in improving the quality of healthcare and service provision, in line with local and national policy and strategy.
- Work within the practices legal framework for identifying vulnerable patients and apply policies relating to treatment of vulnerable patients.
Key responsibilities non-clinical
- Develop and nurture professional and collaborative working relationships with all staff and external stakeholders.
- Ensure the practice and all staff follow best practice, as set out in clinical guidelines, and identified through audits.
- Identify opportunities to improve existing processes and develop new ones, both in the practice and those involving external agencies and stakeholders
- Develop and maintain systems to ensure the efficient running of the practice, such as those to manage staff training, performance, clinical governance, finance, IT, complaints, and equality and diversity.
- Action and refer concerns and issues as appropriate.
- Practice-related duties
- Process medical reports, referrals, and correspondence
- Record and collect data for audit purposes.
- Make timely, clear, computer-based records of consultations and contact with patients.
- Maintain administrative records relating to the practice contract, enhanced services and QOF.
- Contribute to providing a supportive environment for other staff through informal catchups and contact.
- Attend and contribute to in-house meetings, including clinical, educational/training-related and administrative meetings.
- Attend meetings and events held by external agencies and stakeholders if appropriate.
- Contribute to teaching and training clinical staff as appropriate.
- Personal and professional development of self and others
- Comply with the GMC Code of Conduct
- Prepare for and complete annual external appraisals.
- Prepare for and complete revalidation process.
- Act as a mentor and positive role model to all members of staff, both clinical and non-clinical, sharing information and good practice
- Prioritise own workload and collaborate with others to delegate and prioritise team and practice workload.
- Undertake training as required to ensure competencies for delivering all responsibilities, to meet personal, statutory and practice education and learning needs, including keeping records of learning, reflection, complaints, and feedback.
- Keep up to date with current evidence-based approaches to patient care and service delivery, in line with NICE and the National Service Framework
- Lead and contribute to education activities, such as reviewing significant events, clinical audit, protected learning time,, etc.
- Contribute to education and training of trainee clinical staff and students (if requested)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- UK recognised medical degree
- Completion of FY1/2 and GPVTS program (or equivalent)
Desirable
- We would welcome a GP straight from VTS, or any level of experience
Experience
Essential
- Someone keen to be part of a team. A lot of the day we spend consulting in our rooms, but it is important to have good team relationships, where we can bounce ideas off each other and communicate well.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a GP practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- UK recognised medical degree
- Completion of FY1/2 and GPVTS program (or equivalent)
Desirable
- We would welcome a GP straight from VTS, or any level of experience
Experience
Essential
- Someone keen to be part of a team. A lot of the day we spend consulting in our rooms, but it is important to have good team relationships, where we can bounce ideas off each other and communicate well.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a GP practice
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
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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).
