General Practitioner Morfa Lane Surgery

GP Practice in Wales

The closing date is 30 June 2024

Job summary

Salary Available Upon Request

5 sessions a week

We offer

A well established, friendly and dedicated team serving our 3,900 patients

High quality clinical care under a GMS contract

Link staff include Social Prescriber, Palpitation Nurse, Health Coach, Specialist Nurses and excellent relationship with the wider primary care team

Vision clinical system with DOCMAN/WCCG/GPTR

A wide range of additional and enhanced services.

Active with the Cluster Network Group

We are flexible about the way in which the post might be filled a partner additional to the current partner, or by a Salaried GP. Financially very stable, we offer a competitive package for either approach.

If you bring, or wish to develop, a particular clinical or other skill, we would look to support and encourage this.

Main duties of the job

Please see Job Plan.

Appointments:

15-minute face to face appointments.

AM session up to 16 patients, this includes pre-bookable and on the day urgent appointments.

PM session up to 12 patients, this includes pre-bookable and on the day urgent appointments.

On-call all day on an equitable rota with other doctors in the practice.

Visits as and when required, approximately 2 per week

Dealing with telephone queries from patients or other health care professionals

About us

A well established, small friendly and dedicated team serving over 3,800 patients High quality clinical care (with high QAIF points) under a GMS contract Good skill-mix, with 3 GP's, Nurse Practitioner, 2 Practice Nurses, Pharmacist and good links with the wider primary care team Vision clinical system with DOCMAN A wide range of additional and enhanced services. Active with the Cluster Network Group

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Date posted

31 January 2024

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

Depending on experience Salary Available on Application - 5 sessions a week

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

M0044-24-0033

Job locations

Morfa Lane Surgery

2 Morfa Lane

Carmarthen

Dyfed

SA31 3AX


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Plan

Timetable of Duties:

Clinical duties as above.

Docman up to 20 letters per day

Referrals via WCCG or referrals which are not able to be sent via WCCG

Medication reviews 6 per day

Medication requests 6 per day

Equal share of blood results

Administration:

Whether arising directly from this caseload (referrals, investigations, results) and indirectly (reports, medicals, etc).

You will be expected to carry out your administration duties and possible home visits between 8am and 6.30pm.

Primary Care Meetings:

Formal or informal.

Essential to the delivery of team-based care.

Discussing clinical practice standards.

Developing practice protocols.

Mutual professional support for the individual practitioners.

Audit.

Significant event analysis.

Meetings with colleagues in the locality, care trust etc. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical workload may be required.

Duties:

Acting as the buddy to cover another doctors list of patients when that doctor is absent from the practice.

Keeping adequate and legible clinical notes on all patient matters as expected of a General Practitioner.

Abiding by any protocols or guidelines adopted by the practice.

Abiding by any referral and prescribing guidelines adopted by the practice.

Undertaking Medical Audit as appropriate.

Undertaking all clinical Governance activity as appropriate.

Abiding by the Practice Complaints Procedure.

Attending Practice Meetings as required.

Undertaking all necessary medical and data entry requirements of the new GMS contract.

Attend an annual internal Practice Performance Review.

To ensure you renew your GMC membership and other relevant membership.

Undertake annual GP appraisal.

Specific Specialist Roles within the Practice:

Responsibility for particular areas of practice development, QiF areas of responsibility, Practitioner with Special Interest etc.

Personal CPD (Continuing professional Development):

This may include a mix of in-house meetings and events, time away from the practice, either in private study, attending educational events or time in lieu of attending educational events outside of normal working hours.

Your weekly CPD entitlement is 2 hours 67 minutes which can be requested for professional development. This time must be approved by the HR lead in advance and be in accordance with your personal development (PDP). You must keep a log of the time spent on professional development and that log must be shown to the HR lead on request following CPD sessions.

CPD may be accrued and if approved in advance by HR lead taken as study leave to attend courses in line with your PDP.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Plan

Timetable of Duties:

Clinical duties as above.

Docman up to 20 letters per day

Referrals via WCCG or referrals which are not able to be sent via WCCG

Medication reviews 6 per day

Medication requests 6 per day

Equal share of blood results

Administration:

Whether arising directly from this caseload (referrals, investigations, results) and indirectly (reports, medicals, etc).

You will be expected to carry out your administration duties and possible home visits between 8am and 6.30pm.

Primary Care Meetings:

Formal or informal.

Essential to the delivery of team-based care.

Discussing clinical practice standards.

Developing practice protocols.

Mutual professional support for the individual practitioners.

Audit.

Significant event analysis.

Meetings with colleagues in the locality, care trust etc. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical workload may be required.

Duties:

Acting as the buddy to cover another doctors list of patients when that doctor is absent from the practice.

Keeping adequate and legible clinical notes on all patient matters as expected of a General Practitioner.

Abiding by any protocols or guidelines adopted by the practice.

Abiding by any referral and prescribing guidelines adopted by the practice.

Undertaking Medical Audit as appropriate.

Undertaking all clinical Governance activity as appropriate.

Abiding by the Practice Complaints Procedure.

Attending Practice Meetings as required.

Undertaking all necessary medical and data entry requirements of the new GMS contract.

Attend an annual internal Practice Performance Review.

To ensure you renew your GMC membership and other relevant membership.

Undertake annual GP appraisal.

Specific Specialist Roles within the Practice:

Responsibility for particular areas of practice development, QiF areas of responsibility, Practitioner with Special Interest etc.

Personal CPD (Continuing professional Development):

This may include a mix of in-house meetings and events, time away from the practice, either in private study, attending educational events or time in lieu of attending educational events outside of normal working hours.

Your weekly CPD entitlement is 2 hours 67 minutes which can be requested for professional development. This time must be approved by the HR lead in advance and be in accordance with your personal development (PDP). You must keep a log of the time spent on professional development and that log must be shown to the HR lead on request following CPD sessions.

CPD may be accrued and if approved in advance by HR lead taken as study leave to attend courses in line with your PDP.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • see job description for full duties
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • see job description for full duties

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

GP Practice in Wales

Address

Morfa Lane Surgery

2 Morfa Lane

Carmarthen

Dyfed

SA31 3AX


Employer's website

https://gpwales.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

GP Practice in Wales

Address

Morfa Lane Surgery

2 Morfa Lane

Carmarthen

Dyfed

SA31 3AX


Employer's website

https://gpwales.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Manager

Jodi Bateman

jodi.bateman@wales.nhs.uk

01267612730

Date posted

31 January 2024

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

Depending on experience Salary Available on Application - 5 sessions a week

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

M0044-24-0033

Job locations

Morfa Lane Surgery

2 Morfa Lane

Carmarthen

Dyfed

SA31 3AX


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