Would you like to be part of an exciting and growing Practice within Stevenage with an opportunity to design your own job specification to reflect your specialist interest? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a caring Salaried GP to join STANMORE MEDICAL GROUP – a thriving and high achieving practice with 5 sites across Stevenage.
We are
· the largest GP Practice in Hertfordshire with
- 48,500 patients
- 13 Partners
- 22 Salaried GPs
- 7 Emergency Care Practitioners
- 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- 24 Nurses
- 1 Nurse Associate
- 5 HCAs
- Supported by an experienced and supportive managerial and administrative team
· the only Practice within the well-established Stevenage North PCN supported by
- Clinical Pharmacists
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Social Prescribers
- Care Co-ordinators
- Mental Health clinicians
- Physiotherapists
· a practice with multiple areas of specialism
- Diabetes
- Respiratory
- ENT
- Mental Health
- Acute illness
- Long term conditions
- PCN Management
- Teaching
· a practice with its own visiting service
· a training practice for GP registrars
We offer
· Base salary of £10,500 to £11,000 per session based on experience
· 6-8 sessions per week
· Opportunity to increase salary
· 6 weeks pro rata annual leave
· 1 week pro rata study leave
· High QOF achievement and “good” CQC rating
· Medical indemnity insurance
· Membership of NHS pension
· Free onsite parking at all sites
· NHS Fleet
· Employee Assistance Programme
· SystmOne, Accurx, Ardens, Abtrace
Essential qualifications
GMC Registered
Job summary
The post-holder 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.
Clinical 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, all appointments are face-to-face, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
- 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
- Collecting data for audit purposes
- 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.
Other responsibilities within the organisation
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, eg prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
- A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
- Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
- Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
- Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
- Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
Statement from Salaried GP “I really enjoy being a Salaried GP at SMG. The workload is very manageable, the administration side of the job is quite light and duty days are very well organised and not usually stressful days. The clinical and management teams are friendly, helpful, approachable and accommodating. The practice is very well-organised and the patient population is interesting and varied.”
For further information, please visit our website www.stanmoremedicalgroup.co.uk
Informal visits are encouraged and can be arranged at short notice via calling Claire Brown, Practice Manager, on 01438 313223 or via email to [email protected]
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £63,000.00-£88,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Store discount
Work Location: In person
