Job summary

A fantastic opportunity for a Salaried GP with a view to a partnership to join our friendly team - hours negotiable.

You will be part of the GP team managing a busy, interesting clinical caseload spread over the populations covered by Colne Medical Practice, ensuring the highest standard of care for all registered and temporary patients. The post holder will carry out all the duties reasonably expected of an NHS general practitioner using the standards expected by the GMC and RCGP in line with appropriate national and/or local guidelines.

The post holder will be required to work flexibly within the practice.

• Surgeries the post holder will work agreed sessions per week on a flexible basis.
• Home visits the post holder will be required to carry out home visits occasionally, during surgery, in an emergency.
• Administration the post holder will be required to ensure that all relevant administration is completed during normal working hours. This includes completion of medical/insurance examinations in a timely and appropriate a manner to meet the needs of the practices registered patients.

If you are interested in this role and want to work for a forward thinking medical practice who offer support and training in a friendly and fast paced environment, then please do apply.

Main duties of the job

• be available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery, telephone and electronic consultations and queries, visiting patients homes, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a time fashion.
• make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other care workers within the organisation and assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, develop care plans for healthcare needs.
• assist in the establishment of appropriate systems to manage common chronic medical conditions e.g. asthma, diabetes.
• provide counselling and health education.
• make appropriate and timely referral of patients for further opinion and treatment using Lexacom system.
• follow all practice, NHSE England guidelines as appropriate.

About us

The Colte Partnership is very much at the heart of primary care, being the largest GP partnership in North East Essex; comprised of 9 local GP practices across Colchester and Tendring. We care for approx. 98,000 patients. Our head office is in Feering.

We pride ourselves on working to be at the forefront of primary care in our region, and have many exciting ventures on the horizon.

Each of our branches has its own character, and family friendly ethos, which is why our patients love coming to us (and tell us so in our regular patient surveys). However, being a large partnership means we can offer so much more than a local branch can by itself with specialist clinics, social prescribing and innovative support such as regular dementia cafes,armed forces support and even child first aid classes for parents.

We strive to look after our employees as well, with generous annual leave, flexible and family friendly working, and support during difficult times such as free counselling.

We also work as three collaborative primary care networks (PCNs) which span across Colchester and Tendring:

• ARA - Ambrose Avenue Group Practice, Riverside Medical Centre & Ardleigh Surgery
• RMT - Mersea Island Medical Practice, Tiptree Medical Centre & Rowhedge Medical Centre
• WCW - Walton Medical Centre, Colne Medical Centre & Wivenhoe Medical Centre