Salaried GP

Job summary

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.

Beechfield Medical Centre can offer a Tier 2 Sponsorship.

Main duties of the job

• In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• The practice allows 15 minutes per appointment.
• Beechfield Medical Centre has a morning break where all clinicans are invited to come to together as a chance to connect.

About us

Beechfield Medical Centre is a well-established and highly regarded GP practice based in the heart of the Lincolnshire market town of Spalding, operating from modern purpose built premises. We are looking to appoint several new team members as we look to develop and enhance the services we are able to offer to our nearly 22,000 patients.

Beechfield is a Veteran Friendly Practice, a Learning Disability Friendly Practice with GOLD status, and was the first practice in Lincolnshire to achieve GOLD status through the Lincolnshire People Promise Trailblazer programme. We are also proud to be a Menopause Friendly workplace.

The Practice has also achieved a 93% score through the 5 Star Quality Award, alongside numerous local and regional awards and nominations for our teams and individual colleagues.

These achievements are something to celebrate, but they are not the end goal. They reflect the culture we want to maintain: inclusive, supportive, ambitious and continually improving.

Job responsibilities

• In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
• Providing counselling and health education
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
• In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of continued professional development
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit
• Experience of working in a primary care environment

Desirable

• Minimum of two years as a salaried GP
• Experience of medicines management
• Experience of CCG initiatives

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified GP
• General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)
• MRCGP
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP