Harborough Field Surgery is seeking an enthusiastic, salaried GP for 6 sessions per week, on a Monday, Tuesday & Friday.
Currentlya GMS practice, we are a consistent performer in QoF achieving a minimum of97.45% during the last 10 years. Weaccept the majority of DES & LES. We are a training practice, GP Enhanced Access Hub and carry out family planning/minor surgery clinics.
We hopeto support any special interests an applicant may have; and in this respectcurrently host medical students from Cambridge University.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be part of a primary care health team providing general medical services and 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.
About us
Located on the outskirts of Rushden in a purpose built medical centre which opened in 2006, the surgery boasts 9 doctors, currently serving a population of some 14,000 patients.
Clinically the doctors are supported by a Clinical Pharmacist, 3 Nurse Practitioners, 4 Treatment Room Nurses, 1 Health Care Assistant and 2 Nursing Assocaites. We also have access to a First Contact Physiotherapist, a Paramedic Home Visiting service, daily Paediatric Nurse clinics, a Social Prescriber and Care Coordinators for our care home residents and elderly, frail patients.
Our Practice Manager is supported by an Operations Manager and our Administrative support team includes 8 Receptionists and 7 Administrator/Secretaries. The surgery is a training practice and hosts GP Trainees and Medical Students from Cambridge University. The surgery hosts the GP Enhanced Access Service.
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
* The post-holder will make him/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, test results and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. The practice uses Anima as a total triage system.
* Work with the electronic document management system EMIS Web, ICE, Choose and Book, Dictation.
* 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 if the need arises
* 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 & quality purposes.
* Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
* Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary and generically whenever this is clinically appropriate in liaison with the partners.
* To use the applicable Choose and Book systems for patient referrals etc.
* In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care under a GMS contract. This will include some on call sessions and visits.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MRCGP
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.
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