Salaried GP

5 x sessions per week

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.

In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including face-to-face consultations, telephone consultations and queries, consultations using video and photos, home visits, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion

Main duties of the job

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

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 paper and hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribing and referring in accordance with the Practice policy as determined by our 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.

Trinity Medical Centre is a modern city centre practice with approximately 27,000 patient list.