An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated GP to join our clinical team. If you are looking for a part-time role in a friendly rural location, we may have the ideal position for you. The position is for 4-5 sessions per week (Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday).
Main duties of the job
In accordancewith the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselvesavailable to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations,telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking andsigning repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork andcorrespondence in a timely fashion.
About us
Great Eccleston Health Centre is a rural 3 partner practice based on the Fylde Coast,with an excellent reputation for patient care and service provision.
The Practice serves a community of 7800 patients
The Practice is working closely alongside a neighbouring Practice as part of a Primary Care Network with a combined population of 20,000 patients.
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
Providing a minimum of 1 Duty Doctor session per week until 6:30pm
Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care 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
Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
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
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
Qualifications
* Current GMC registration on GP list at time of application.
* Be on, or eligible for inclusion on a performers list.
Experience
* Broad knowledge of Primary Care and fit with the wider clinical community.
* Ability to apply sound clinical knowledge and handle uncertainty, using judgement to refer patients appropriately.
* Ability to work successfully in a multi professional/disciplinary team and across organisational boundaries as well as autonomously.
* Ability to appraise own performance, demonstrate insight and act on feedback.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
* Ability to manage own time and workload.
* Experience of under graduate and postgraduate teaching and training.
* Experience of working in primary care.
* Experience of EMIS Web clinical system.
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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