Cardigan Health Centre is looking for a 6-8 session Salaried GP to join our supportive, forward-thinking team in one of the most beautiful corners of West Wales.
You will replace a retiring GP who has worked for the practice for 32 years.
* Starting salary: £10,500 £11,500 per session, depending on experience
* Supportive environment for newly qualified and experienced GPs
* Active involvement in GP training and research
* Strong links with the local cluster and GP collaborative, offering opportunities to influence wider primary care services
* Progressive and innovative working culture with an emphasis on wellbeing and teamwork
Main duties of the job
Mixed clinical workload with opportunities to develop special interests, teaching, or research involvement
Supportive multidisciplinary team including experienced nursing, administrative, and management staff
Modern, well-equipped practice serving a welcoming and diverse community
To provide leadership as well as a clinical commitment
Provide consultation and appropriate clinical management of patients attending the practice, or to those where a home visit is clinically necessary
Provide one on-call session per week
To keep accurate and legible records of all patient contacts and contribute to electronic data recording and audit as directed by the service.
About us
We are a supportive friendly practice with experienced GP Partners, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Practice nurses. We have an open door policy so you are never on your own.
We follow the BMA contract with 15 minute appointments, with an example session of 10 face to face appointments, 2 telephone calls and SDL time inbuilt into the weekly timetable.
This is a training practice so we are able to support a newly qualified GP and also welcome experienced GPs.
We have a stable practice population of 10500 patients looked after by a team of 4 partners, 2 salaried GPs, 3 ANPs, 3 practice nurses and 2 HCAs who are all supported by a hard-working and supportive reception and admin team. We are also very fortunate to work in an Integrated Care Centre housing the Community Nursing team, Same Day Emergency Care, Minor Injuries and Outreach Visiting Practitioners.
We have a total triage system where the on call GP will see all requests to the practice and direct them towards an appointment, redirect to appropriate service, or call the patient directly. We all share the on call which is restricted to morning or afternoon session. You are fully supported while on call.
Cardigan is a historic town with a fantastic culture of excellent food, arts, and a strong sense of community. We are rural with a farming community so your short commute may need to take into account cows milking times and tractors on the road. We have surfing, coastal walks and countryside on your doorstep.
Job responsibilities
JobSummary
The post-holderwill manage and be responsible for a defined caseload of patients and deal witha wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the higheststandards of care for all registered and temporary patients.
ClinicalResponsibilities
In accordance with the Practicetimetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available toundertake a variety of duties. Thesewill include surgery consultations, telephone and video consultations, triagingpatients on the triage list, on-call doctor duties, visiting patients at home, checking,and signing repeat prescriptions, dealing with queries, paperwork andcorrespondence in a timely fashion.
Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems,whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within theorganisation.
Assessing the health care needs ofpatients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
Screening patients for disease riskfactors and early signs of illness.
In consultation with patients and inline with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plansfor health.
Providing counselling and healtheducation.
Admitting or discharging patients toand from relevant caseloads and referring to other care providers asappropriate.
Recording clear and factual consultationnotes to agreed standards.
Prescribing in accordance with thePractice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinicallyappropriate.
In general, the post-holder will beexpected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associatedwith a GP working within Primary Care.
Other Responsibilities Within theOrganisation
Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g.,prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
Acommitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based bestpractice.
Contributingto the development of computer-based patient records.
Contributingto the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data
Attendingtraining and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, whereappropriate.
Contributionto the Implementation of Services
ApplyPractice policies, standards, and guidance.
Discusswith other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines willaffect own work.
Participatein audit where appropriate.
Workalongside and with the other GPs, practice nurses, practice manager, reception,and administration staff.
Workalongside and with external providers including care home staff, districtnurses and hospital teams.
Contribution to Usual GP Workload
Complete routine daily surgery
Completeon-call surgeries shared pro rata between all our GPs.
Completea pro-rata share of paperwork (after full clinical document management has beencompleted by our administration team).
Confidentiality
Whileseeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather sensitiveinformation in relation to their health and other matters. They do so inconfidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacyand act appropriately.
Inthe performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holdermay have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers,Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have accesstoinformation relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All suchinformation from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
Information relating to patients, carers,colleagues, other healthcare workers or thebusiness of the Practice mayonly be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policiesand procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal andsensitive data.
Health & Safety
The post-holder will assist in promotingand maintaining their own and others health, safetyand security as defined in the PracticeHealth & Safety Policy, to include:
Usingpersonal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines.
Identifyingthe risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a waythat manages those risks.
Makingeffective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
Usingappropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy andsafe way and free from hazards.
Equality and Diversity
The post-holderwill support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers andcolleagues, to include:
Actingin a way that Recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting themin a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and currentlegislation.
Respectingthe privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
Behavingin a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental andrespects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/ProfessionalDevelopment
In addition tomaintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or studydays necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met,the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by thePractice as part of this employment. Such training is to include:
Participationin an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility formaintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
Takingresponsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstratingskills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality
The post-holder will strive to maintainquality within the Practice, and will:
Alertother team members to issues of quality and risk.
Assessown performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly orunder supervision.
Contributeto the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities andmaking suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
Workeffectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
Effectivelymanage own time, workload, and resources.
Communication
The post-holdershould recognise the importance of effective communication within the team andwill strive to:
Communicateeffectively with other team members.
Communicateeffectively with patients and carers.
Recognisepeoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respondaccordingly.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Full GMC Registration with a license to practice and entry on the GP Register
* Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General Practice / Certificate Confirming Eligibility for General Practice Registration (CEGPR), or equivalent
* Included on a Medical Performers List or eligible
* Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
* GMC-registered GP with a licence to practise
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.
£10,500 to £11,500 a yearDepending on experience
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