Overview
Join a salaried GP role at our GP practice in Shipton-Under-Wychwood, Cotswolds. The position requires 6–8 sessions per week, plus two hours on Saturday each month for enhanced access. You will work within a highly regarded practice with a national patient satisfaction score in the top 2% of the country.
Responsibilities
- Provide a full range of medical services as defined in the core GMS contract and deliver enhanced services where appropriate.
- Consult patients in clinic, by telephone and on home visits, ensuring timely repeat prescriptions and timely paperwork and correspondence.
- Record clear, contemporaneous consultation notes using EMIS web and clinical templates where required.
- Develop and implement care plans, provide counselling and health education, and refer patients to appropriate services.
- Prescribe in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (OCCG) or generically when clinically appropriate.
- Take professionally autonomous decisions regarding presenting problems, whether self‑referred or referred from other health-care workers.
- Conduct regular clinical audit and QOF submissions, and contribute to practice audit and quality improvement initiatives.
- Maintain strict confidentiality, comply with data protection, confidentiality and health‑and‑safety policies, and support infection‑control protocols.
- Provide administrative support to the Practice Manager and ensure accurate reporting of organisational and administrative matters.
- Participate in continuous professional development, training programmes, and annual reviews, maintaining evidence‑based best practice.
Qualifications
- Full GMC registration.
- Qualified GP (MRCGP, Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP, Certificate of Completion of Training CCT).
- Eligibility to practice in the UK independently.
- National Performers List registration.
- DBS Enhanced Check.
Person Specification
- Experience working in a primary‑care GP setting.
- Experience with QOF, clinical audit, medicines management and ICB initiatives.
- Good understanding of the GMS contract and practice prescribing formulary.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, and ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Problem‑solving, analytical and organisational skills – able to prioritise tasks in a fast‑paced environment.
- Capability to handle confidential and sensitive information with integrity and respect for patient privacy.
- Strong commitment to life‑long learning and audit to ensure evidence‑based best practice.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
The post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a DBS enhanced check and Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
