GP

Job summary

Barrack Lane Medical Centre is looking for a salaried GP to join their busy practice, covering 6 sessions per week over three days. Although you will be employed by Barrack Lane and Ivry Street PCN you will be based at Barrack Lane Medical Centre.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of our multidisciplinary team, you will carry out the following;

• Undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone 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 path reports.
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting medical problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation.
• Assessing the healthcare needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.
• Providing health education.
• Recording clear consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirement.
• Delivering enhanced services.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
• All general duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

About us

Barrack Lane is a busy practice in the town centre of Ipswich, Suffolk. We have a practice population of over 20,000 patients. The practice is based on two sites, the main surgery in the centre of the town, and a branch surgery at Stoke Park.

Our clinical team is made up of GP partners, salaried GPs, advanced nurse practitioners, advanced care practitioners, dietician, paramedics, physicians associate, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and a practice nursing team and HCAs. This team is supported by a strong administrative, coding and care-navigating team. Barrack Lane is part of a PCN (primary care network) with Ivry Street Medical Centre, in Ipswich, and the two practices cover a population of 32,000 patients. The PCN allows the practices to share resources and offer an enhanced service to our patients. The PCN employs care co-ordinators and social prescribers to work with patients, especially our vulnerable patients, to help them to access the best care.