Job summary
Salaried GP
Cruddas Park Surgery
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7JT
Cruddas Park Surgery are excited to recruit a Salaried GP for six sessions (negotiable). The post would offer a new challenge to an established GP or the opportunity to flourish as a newly qualified GP.
Consulting at Cruddas Park is GP first with an emphasis on face-to-face consulting prioritising relational continuity. The successful applicant would work as a member of a 4 partner and 7 salaried GP team supported by a skilled and diverse multidisciplinary team including The Space, a novel one stop multidisciplinary approach to addressing mental illness.
Employment is subject to the terms of the BMA contract at £12,000 per session inclusive of paid CPD time and 6 weeks holiday pro rata. Duty rota is allocated pro rata and there is shared use of our practice electric car for home visiting. We have a clear desk policy for holidays and active social calendar including a running club.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will manage a patient based 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. As a member of the team and one of the employers they will be expected to set an example to others, assist in education and training and to play a full role in target achievement and service development.
About us
Cruddas Park and our satellite surgery Hillsview serve a diverse and growing population of 11,800 patients. We are a Deep End practice, and our core values are inclusion, trauma informed care and the belief we are first and foremost family doctors. We are proud to be a Haref ally, Safe Surgery and Living Wage Employer.
Cruddas Park believe we offer a unique approach to Deep End primary care supporting most vulnerable through our team of GPs with special interests including homelessness, Intellectual Disability/Autism, Severe Mental Illness, Care Homes, Womens Health, Violent Patients, Safeguarding and Asylum Seekers. We would be keen to support applicants to develop interests that will benefit our growing and diverse patient population.
Cruddas Park is an active training practice for GP Registrars and Undergraduate Medical Students. We also have active involvement in primary research. There will be opportunities for the successful applicant to be involved in both.
As a practice we always foster an open-door policy for all clinicians with supervision available through our partnership team and fortnightly protected clinical meetings.
We are happy to consider flexible working and would welcome applications from GPs from minoritised communities particularly practitioners who can consult in a second language or have local knowledge.
We welcome informal enquiries and look forward to hearing from you. Closing date 14th March.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The GP will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home and in nursing homes, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required.
Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate.
Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well wider guidance such as that from NICE.
Ensure appropriate follow up of patients.
Record clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes to agreed standards.
Collect data for audit purposes.
Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions avoiding hand-written prescriptions.
Prescribe generically whenever appropriately and in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance and Good Prescribing Practice (as defined by British National Formulary guidance).
Work with and support other members of the primary health care team in delivering high quality primary care.
Promote the application of standards and codes of Practice set by the Royal College of General Practice, General Medical Council, Department of Health, and local CCG.
Play a role in the practice achieving agreed QOF and other key performance indicator targets.
Take responsibility for targets and services allocated, e.g. a QOF area or an Enhanced Service.
Please see the attached Job Description in Supporting Documents for more information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The GP will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations, visiting patients at home and in nursing homes, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence as required.
Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate.
Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols as well wider guidance such as that from NICE.
Ensure appropriate follow up of patients.
Record clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes to agreed standards.
Collect data for audit purposes.
Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions avoiding hand-written prescriptions.
Prescribe generically whenever appropriately and in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary, NICE guidance and Good Prescribing Practice (as defined by British National Formulary guidance).
Work with and support other members of the primary health care team in delivering high quality primary care.
Promote the application of standards and codes of Practice set by the Royal College of General Practice, General Medical Council, Department of Health, and local CCG.
Play a role in the practice achieving agreed QOF and other key performance indicator targets.
Take responsibility for targets and services allocated, e.g. a QOF area or an Enhanced Service.
Please see the attached Job Description in Supporting Documents for more information.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a primary care environment.
- Experience of continued professional development.
Desirable
- Experience of QOF and clinical audit.
- Experience of medicines management.
- General understanding of the primary care contract.
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified GP.
- MRCGP.
- Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP.
- General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT).
- Full GMC registration.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a primary care environment.
- Experience of continued professional development.
Desirable
- Experience of QOF and clinical audit.
- Experience of medicines management.
- General understanding of the primary care contract.
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified GP.
- MRCGP.
- Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP.
- General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT).
- Full GMC registration.
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).
