We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward‑thinking GP to join Bath Independents Primary Care Network on a fixed‑term contract.
You will be required to work at Bathheaston Medical Centre on Fridays for two sessions per week. All our practices in the PCN are training practices. We are a highly supportive PCN, understanding the importance of a good work / life balance with an open‑door ethos.
To undertake duties governed by the contract and Objectives of Direct and Local Enhanced Services including:
* Face‑to‑face and telephone consultations
* Patient home visits and nursing home visits
* Checking and signing repeat prescriptions
* Administration – dealing with queries, patient test results, referral letters NHS/private, tasks, emails, and other paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner
* Cover all the clinical management of the patients in surgery as appropriate, including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to secondary care or to other providers as appropriate
Job responsibilities
MAIN TASKS:
CLINICAL
* Recording clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards
* Providing safe, evidence‑based, cost‑effective, individualised patient care within the surgery, patient’s own home or other environment where patient care is carried out
* Clinically examining and assessing patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective and planning clinical care accordingly, referring patients to other services/agencies in a timely manner, utilising Practice, PCN and local guidelines
* Recognising the need for and being able to perform and interpret investigatory procedures, including laboratory and radiology
* Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care
* Ensuring appropriate follow‑up of patients
* Supporting patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self‑care
* Supporting the delivery of anticipatory care plans
* Recognising and working within your own competence and in accordance with professional codes of conduct, maintaining accurate and contemporaneous health records
* Independently prescribing for patients within your scope of practice. Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines
* Compiling and issuing computer‑generated acute and repeat prescriptions
* Reviewing medications following the appropriate policies, NICE/local clinical guidelines and local care pathways
* Maintaining an awareness of developments in clinical practice
* Being aware of and complying with all relevant practice policies/guidelines e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety and QOF standards
* Being aware of your duties and responsibilities regarding current legislation and adhering to our policies and procedures on safeguarding children and safeguarding adults
Experience
* Experience of working in urgent care and, or a primary care environment
* Experience of dealing with a range of clinical conditions
* Experience of providing home visits
* Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of own clinical practice
* Understanding of evidence‑based practice
* Evidence of working autonomously, with some support and supervision
* Experience in triage
* Knowledge of Quality and Outcomes Framework
* Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
* Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
* Knowledge of health‑promotion strategies
Qualifications
* GMC registered
* MBBS or equivalent medical degree
* 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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