Salaried GP

Job summary

Parkfield Medical Centre is a friendly and forward-thinking practice in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire and we currently require a salaried GP to join our team for 4 sessions a week. These must be to cover Monday afternoons and Fridays, morning and afternoon sessions.

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. Teamwork is an essential part of the role, working as part of our senior clinical team to provide quality care to our patients as well as supporting the wider practice core clinical workload.

Main duties of the job

• Surgery and telephone consultations and queries.
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• Visiting patients at home.
• Checking and signing repeat prescriptions.
• Dealing with queries, paperwork, insurance forms and correspondence in a timely fashion.

About us

The practice provides services to a patient population of 13,000. We have4 GP partners and 3 salaried GPs are supported by a large multidisciplinary teamincluding; 1 matron 2 practice nurses, 1 HCA, 1 paramedic, 1 phlebotomist and a practice pharmacist. We are a high achieving surgery in all clinical and quality areas. We also have:

• High QoF achievement.
• Modern, purpose built premises with excellent transport links to London, Hertfordshire and beyond.
• Established training practice for East of England VTS scheme and Cambridge Medical School undergraduates.
• Highly engaged patient participation group of over 2,000 members.
• Reputable training and teaching practice with a strong commitment to personal development and training across all staff groups.
• Good across all domains following CQC inspection in May 2016.
• A strong management team and a warm reception and administrative team.
• EMIS IT system.
• Weekly business meetings, monthly finance, and clinical meetings for all our clinical staff.
• Very active and supportive PPG.
• Onsite parking.
• No extended hours or weekend commitments.
• Support with professional development.