Job summary
Salaried GP - Cardinal Medical Practice, Ipswich
Cardinal Medical Practice, Ipswich, are recruiting into a new Salaried GP role. We provide GP services to almost 30,000 patients and are progressing a move into a purpose built facility in 2023/4.
We offer:
Great Salary
NHS Pension
6-week’s Annual Leave (FTE)
1-week’s Study Leave (FTE)
Medical Defence top up fees paid
Regular Support and Mentoring
Salary Sacrifice Electric Car Scheme
Strong emphasis on Education
Eye Care Vouchers
And we are Research Active
We employ both a diverse workforce and clinical skill mix. We are member of East Suffolk Primary Care Network, providing primary care services to more than 150,000 patients.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
SPC is an innovative partnership with like minded Suffolk GP
surgeries covering 130,000 patients.
Doctors and practice staff share resources and work together to
ensure patients continue to receive high quality healthcare.
Suffolk Primary Care is committed to a policy of equal
opportunities in employment.
Applicants will ideally be fully vaccinated against COVID.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Responsibilities:
- As
agreed in co-operative practice with colleagues, the post-holder will make
themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery
consultations, telephone/video consultations and queries, visiting
patients at home, On Call, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and
dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. To
include the designated share of workflow and pathology reports.
- 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
- Engaging
with activities such as the QOF, LES/DES and other additional work essential
for providing a full service for patients
- 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) and
the CCG 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.
Other
responsibilities within the organisation:
- Awareness
of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.
prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, CQC
- A
commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best
practice
- Contributing
to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
- Contributing
to the housekeeping and updating of computer-based patient records.
- To
comply with the Practice IT policy
- Contributing
to read-coding patient data
Attending training and events organised by the practice
or other agencies, where appropriat
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Responsibilities:
- As
agreed in co-operative practice with colleagues, the post-holder will make
themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery
consultations, telephone/video consultations and queries, visiting
patients at home, On Call, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and
dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. To
include the designated share of workflow and pathology reports.
- 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
- Engaging
with activities such as the QOF, LES/DES and other additional work essential
for providing a full service for patients
- 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) and
the CCG 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.
Other
responsibilities within the organisation:
- Awareness
of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g.
prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, CQC
- A
commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best
practice
- Contributing
to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
- Contributing
to the housekeeping and updating of computer-based patient records.
- To
comply with the Practice IT policy
- Contributing
to read-coding patient data
Attending training and events organised by the practice
or other agencies, where appropriat
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in Primary Care
Desirable
- Experience of using askmyGP or similar remote consultation software.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in Primary Care
Desirable
- Experience of using askmyGP or similar remote consultation software.
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).
