General Practitioner - Cwmtawe Medical Group
Join a forward-thinking, multi-site practice serving 26,000 patients, where innovation and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do. Work alongside a dynamic multidisciplinary team, in a supportive environment that encourages professional growth and development. We welcome both newly qualified and experienced GPs. With enhanced services, a 90% patient satisfaction rate via AskMyGP, and a strong focus on training, this is a fantastic opportunity to thrive in modern primary care.
Main duties of the job
As a General Practitioner, your core responsibility is to provide high-quality, patient-centred care within the community. This involves diagnosing and managing a wide range of health conditions, both acute and chronic, through consultations that may be face-to-face, over the phone, or online via AskMyGP. You’ll prescribe appropriate treatments and medications, monitor patient progress, and refer individuals to specialist services when needed. Preventative care is also a key part of the role, including offering health advice, vaccinations, and screening services.
You’ll play a vital role in managing long-term conditions such as diabetes, respiratory health, and hypertension, while maintaining accurate and up-to-date clinical records. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team including nurses, pharmacists, paramedics, and other healthcare professionals you’ll contribute to a collaborative approach to care. Additionally, you’ll participate in practice meetings, audits, and quality improvement initiatives, and may be involved in mentoring or training medical students and registrars, especially in training practices.
About us
We are a large dual site medical group covering 25,000 patients in the lower Swansea Valley. We have a strong and stable multi-disciplinary team consisting 14 GPs, 2 advanced nurse practitioners, a paramedic practitioner, 2 clinical pharmacists and a 1st contact advanced physiotherapist. They are supported by our team of 10 nurses and 2 HCSW. As with any organisation we are looking for enthusiastic reliable staff to come join the team be it on a short or long term basis. We’d be very interested to hear from you. We have educational meetings every fortnight ensuring we develop and help one another. There is ample opportunity to develop a sub specialty - clinical or non clinical.
Job responsibilities
* Provide high quality patient care including prevention, screening, treatment, management of chronic conditions and health promotion
* Develop care and treatment plans in consultation with patients and in line with current Practice protocols as well as wider guidance e.g. NICE
* Carry out surgery, telephone and video consultations and undertake home visits
* Speak and see patients promptly and in a timely manner. In order to minimise waiting times.
* Ensure appropriate follow up of patients
* Generate, check and sign acute and repeat prescriptions in-line with practice policy
* Transfer patients, where appropriate, to the repeat dispensing system
* Liaise with other team members and organisations involved in patient care and respond promptly to queries
* Investigate and refer patients as appropriate in line with current guidance
* Deal promptly with results and correspondence, clearly communicating any actions that are required
* Provide cover as needed, for all of the above, when other GPs are on leave
* When providing care ensure the judicious use of resources and NHS funds
* Keep clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation notes and patient records to agreed standards and in-line with practice policies
* Collect data for audit and QoF purposes
* Prescribe generically whenever appropriate and in accordance with the Practice formulary, commissioning and national guidance
* Maintain high levels of communication with patients and carers to ensure effective delivery of care
Other day to day Responsibilities within the Organisation:
* Demonstrate an awareness of, and compliance with, all relevant Practice policies/guidelines e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
* Demonstrate a commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest possible quality standards such as the QOF, prescribing targets and other agreed performance Indicator targets
* Demonstrate a commitment and contribution to clinical governance processes including significant event review
* Demonstrate a commitment to life‑long learning, audit and evidence‑based best practice
* Contribute to evaluation and audit within the practice
* Attend and demonstrate commitment to, clinical, clinical governance and educational meetings, ensure that accurate records and minutes are kept and circulated and that action points from previous meetings have been addressed
* Show responsiveness to other doctors and team members working with you at any given time with regard to sharing of workload
* Assist with the training of other staff members and also with the education of doctors and nurses in training as appropriate
* Develop and promote positive collaborative working relationships with partners and all team members
* Liaise with all relevant agencies and services to promote knowledge and awareness of services in the practice and local community
* Complete patient reports within a timely manner
* Take responsibility for own personal development and participate fully in the GP appraisal scheme
* Raise with management if you identify concerns about the health or performance of a colleague or team member
* Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
* Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
* Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
* Review all practice‑related e‑mails and respond promptly to these
* Take responsibility for audits as required
* Take responsibility for targets and services allocated, such as a QOF, Enhanced Services, etc. This includes staying abreast of new guidelines and evidence, developing policies in‑line with these and communicating these to the practice team.
* Provide support to the practice manager as required e.g. complaints or governance issues, CCG/NHSE related issues.
* Contribute in developing new areas of work, improving existing services and attending team meetings as required.
* Attend required training events e.g. PLTS and feedback key learning points to the team
* Reporting of Significant Incidents involving the practice
* Manage own health and stress and alert partners and practice manager promptly if any health issues arise that may impact on personal performance
Confidentiality
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately. As a GP you will have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers. You may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety:
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
* Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
* Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
* Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
* Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
Equality and Diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
* Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
* Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
* Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience working in general practice or primary care.
* Experience working to achieve Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) standards.
Qualifications
* A vocational trained and accredited GP, preferably MRCGP Current registration with the GMC
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Clear DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) report.
* Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Ability to work with limited supervision.
* IT proficiency and familiarity with primary care clinical systems (the practice use EMIS).
* Excellent time keeping and exceptional team player
* Good understanding of GMS contracting requirements
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.
Depending on experience Salary Available on Application
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