Salaried GP

This post provides an opportunity for a suitably qualified candidate with the right clinical skills to undertake a associate GP role within a well-run GP medical practice in Bristol. The suitable candidate 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. We offer full workflow optimisation to help manage your administrative workload. An induction programme and a mentor for ongoing support. We are a dynamic and innovative team, always open to new ideas.,

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self 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
• 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
• 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.
  
  We are a friendly teaching practice providing primary care services in Bristol. We strive to provide an excellentclinical service to our patients with ourhardworking team. We are a practice in the centre of Westbury on Trym in a new purpose-built building serving our community.
The premises are owned by the partnership and are modern, purpose-built and inviting to staff and patients alike. We are a non-dispensing PMS practice, with a strong interest in both teaching and research. We have a low home visit rate. We are a stable and successful business with 5 GP partners, 6 salaried doctors and an excellent team of advanced nurse practitioners, nurses and practice administration staff. You will be supported by our excellent management team. There is a strong team ethos within the practice and it is very important to the partners that this is maintained and developed. All clinicians meet for a daily coffee between 10:30 11:00am and in the summer months we like to use our garden! In addition we have an annual wellbeing afternoon and arrange regular social events for the team. Continuous training and development are important and encouraged. Further, we hold regular in-house educational sessions and we provide all associate GPs with a clinical mentor to ensure full integration and support.

We are recruiting for 6 sessions a week. The post holder will receive an annual sessional rate of £10,335 per session per annum (currently under review following DDRB uplift and will be updated accordingly). You will accrue pro-rata annual leave and study leave. The full-time equivalent for one year is 6 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays, plus one weeks study leave. Leave is taken in accordance with our staff handbook and is calculated and accrued pro-rata. On-call sessions are calculated fairly and equally between all GPs. The pro-rata share is based on the total number of sessions worked by all the GPs. The contract includes membership with the NHS Pension Scheme and reimbursement for any MDU fees., Depending on experience Our sessional rate is under review following the DDRB uplift.