General Practitioner

Job summary

Our Training Practice is looking for a six-session a week GP, to join our team. Set in the Community of Seven Sisters, Dulais Valley Primary Care Centre would welcome a GP who would like to develop their own interests and skills within this rural locality.

You will be joining our four existing GPs, pharmacist, two practice nurses and two Health Care Support Workers serving approximately 6000 patients which includes a very low percentage home visit requirement.

Our 3 GP partners are experienced trainers; they would encourage you to engage in the in the teaching opportunities to continue to develop your own learning and skill set.

We currently train GP trainees and Swansea University GEM students. In future we have ambitions to increase our training scope to include pharmacy students/pre-registration.

Main duties of the job

We are fortunate to have, Health Visitor Services, District Nurses and various health board and Cluster services being held at our practice, services include; retinal screening, physiotherapy, social prescribing, heart failure clinic, breast screening and Aneurysm screening. We currently offer Implant and coil fitting and we are in the process of setting up joint injection Clinics, scheduled to commence in the Autumn. We are open to exploring opportunities to expand our additional services for future growth of the Practice.

Ideally, we would require you to work, Monday Wednesday but there is some flexibility. This post would attract 6 weeks annual leave and a week of study leave per annum. All bank holidays are pro-rata. Partnership is something that we would consider with the right candidate.

We have a lovely purpose-built building with very spacious consultation rooms, comfortable relaxation areas and staff facilities. We have ample staff and patient parking, we are situated just a twenty-minute commute from junction 43 of the M4 or the A465 at Glynneath, which makes it easily accessible.

Currently the computer systems we utilise are Ask my GP, EMIS and Docman.

For further information please contact [email protected] (GP) or [email protected] (Practice Manager)

About us

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary, very high QOF achieving team sharing clinical knowledge and experience in a rural GP Practice. The practice supports GP trainees and Swansea University GEM students. Manage patient caseloads and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting and undertake additional professional roles and responsibilities as agreed at appointment. Ensure awareness, compliance and undertaking of all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health, and safety. The successful applicant should also effectively communicate and respect the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers, and colleagues, and behave in a welcoming manner that is nonjudgmental to the individual, respecting their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Job responsibilities

General Practitioner dealing patients face to face, telephone consultations. Also liaising with patients via our computer platform ask my GP

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBCH or equivalent
• MRCGP

Desirable

• ideally minor surgery but not essential