Salaried GP
St Catherine’s Surgery
Birkenhead
Salary
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Posted
2 weeks ago
About the role
The Role The successful candidate will work closely within the practice team, 4-6 sessions per week, contributing to the delivery of high-quality primary care. Key Responsibilities
Undertake telephone and face-to-face consultations with a wide range of patients and health issues (15-minute appointments). Manage patient demand, collaborating with colleagues in the Clinical Hub (triage). Conduct home visits when clinically necessary. Provide safe, effective, and evidence-based care in line with practice policies. Prescribe, request, and interpret investigations, and manage referrals as appropriate. Dealing with laboratory results, Docman and any other practice administrative tasks that are clinician appropriate.
Why Work for Us?
Exciting opportunity to join our fantastic team of highly skilled nurses, HCAs, ANPs, physios, pharmacists, and GPs. Daily clinical meeting to discuss cases, share ideas, and enhance collaborative working and personal development in a supportive environment. Our exceptionally well-organised team of non-clinical staff keep GP paperwork to a minimum. Based in a modern community health centre shared with many other services including DNs, HVs, physio, community cardiology, and radiology with on-site parking and modern facilities. 6 weeks annual leave (pro rata) + study leave.
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 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 Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards 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 and this will include fulfilling on-call duties.