Salaried GP with a view to Partnership inStowmarket inStowmarket PUBLISHED TUE 5 NOV 2024

Salaried GP with a view to Partnership

Are you a mid-career GP seeking a move to a forward looking innovative practice?

Are you a highly motivated, newly qualified GP looking for a well supported first substantive role?

Yes? Then please read on

Stowhealth is a friendly, innovative and exciting GP practice which prides itself on outstanding patient care, excellent patient access and good systems to support our clinicians.

We have an open door ethos, a relaxed working environment and endeavour to support our team to work in a fulfilling, flexible manner.

Stowhealth has a culture of innovating and making changes that benefit our patients and our staff. Life is hard in General Practice at the moment, we do work hard but strive as a team to always do things better, look after each other and have fun along the way.

Why not join us?

Salary competitive + NHS pension and indemnity cover

Partnership Opportunity: Yes, with a view to progression to partnership within 1-2 years.

Your responsibilities as a General Practitioner;

The following are the core responsibilities of the General Practitioner. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels

• Perform clinical examinations of patients to assess, diagnose and monitor conditions
• Carry out patient consultations at home and within the surgery
• Monitor patients' conditions and wellbeing
• Carry out clinical examinations
• Diagnose and treat various illnesses/ailments
• Liaise with other healthcare professionals (e.g., midwives, pharmacists, health visitors and psychiatrists) as part of multidisciplinary teams

About us

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:

• As agreed in co-operative practice with colleagues, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone/video consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, On Call, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion. To include the designated share of workflow and pathology reports.
• 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
• Engaging with activities such as the QOF, LES/DES and other additional work essential for providing a full service for patients
• In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
• 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 handwritten prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) and the ICB 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, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, CQC
• 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 housekeeping and updating of computer-based patient records.
• To comply with the Practice IT policy
• Contributing to read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.