Job summary
Fairfield Park Health Centre are looking to welcome a committed Salaried GP
to join our excellent team, working 3-4 sessions a week (at our dedicated medical centre at Bath Spa University and 1 session at Fairfield Park Health Centre). The role will be term time only.
Are you interested in working for a friendly and high performing practice,
who have been rated Good by the CQC and where individuals are valued?
Are you a caring and and committed professional? If yes then we would
love to hear from you.
We are a busy teaching practice with a well-established patient list but
understand the need to manage workload to establish a work/life balance for our
team. Currently we are served by 4 Partners and 6 salaried GPs and
located in a purpose-built surgery on the north side of Bath. We have a wide
multidisciplinary team, which includes: ANPs, Nurses, HCAs, Clinical Pharmacist,
Pharmacy Technicians, Physio & First Contact Physio and Social Prescriber.
The team are all located on site.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will manage a patient caseload and deal with a wide range of
health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care
for all our patients. In accordance with our practice rota (as agreed),
the post holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of
duties, including face to face surgery consultations, same day walk in and wait
appointments, telephone consultations, checking/signing repeat prescriptions
and issuing scripts. There will also be some on call responsibility.
About us
Our surgeries are a combination of either routine pre-booked or same day
appointments and the format is a combination of telephone and face to face
contacts.
We have a low home visiting rate as we have excellent support from our PCN
Paramedic & regular clinical & non clinical meetings on a Thursday
lunchtime.
Fairfield Park Health Centre is part of the Independent Primary Care
Network, so we have close links with Batheaston and Widcombe Surgeries.
We pride ourselves on being a modern, forward thinking general practice
whilst retaining traditional values.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Areas of Clinical Responsibility
- 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.
- Developing
care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with
current practice disease management protocols.
- 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
hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
- Prescribing
in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically)
whenever this is clinically appropriate.
- Assist
with the supervision of registrars.
- In
general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal
duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary
care.
Person Specification
Qualities
Essential
- Willingness to share and collaborate across entire primary health team.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams.
- Ability to work flexibly.
- Ability to recognize own limitations and act upon them appropriately.
- Willingness to learn new skills and to problem solve on a daily basis.
Qualifications
Essential
- Fully qualified GP, eligible to practice in the UK with GMC registration & on the Medical Performers List.
- Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate).
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.
Experience
Essential
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to prioritise work and work under pressure.
- Organised/efficient in record keeping and completion of paperwork.
- Clinical Governance.
- Delivery of QoF targets and other practice objectives/targets.
Desirable
- Experience of TPP SystmOne.
- Experience of Accurx.
- Experience of EPS prescribing.
- Adaptability to change.
- Service Development.
- Experience or willingness to support GP Registrars in their daily surgeries.
- Self-audit and reflection.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Fairfield Park Health Centre
Address
Tyning Lane
Camden Road
Bath
BA1 6EA