Salaried GP

Job summary

The Vicarage Lane Surgery is offering between 4-8 sessions per week.

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.

Our aim is to provide a supportive environment for the development of all our GP's and staff. There is a strong emphasis on teamwork to promote an enjoyable and effective working environment.

The surgery has a CQC overall of 'Good' and we are always looking for areas in which to innovate our service.

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 incl: surgery consultations, telephone consultations & queries, home visits, check/sign repeat prescriptions & deal with queries, paperwork & correspondence in a timely fashion.
• They will make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated & undiagnosed problems.
• Screen patients for disease risk factors & early signs of illness.
• Develop care plans; provide counselling & health education.
• Admit or discharge patients to/from the caseload & refer to other care providers as appropriate.
• Record clear & contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collect data for audit purposes.
• Prescribe in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Awareness of & compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health & safety.
• Contributing to evaluation/audit & clinical standard setting within the organisation.

About us

We are looking for an enthusiastic GP to join our friendly GP Surgery team in the heart if East London Startford.

The surgery currently has juat under 10,000 registred patients.

We have a mixture of professionsal including GP's, Nurses, HCA's, Clinical Pharmacist, ANP's and a supportive administrative team.

High levels of support and training development is available and study leave can be provided.