Job summary

An exciting role for a Minor Illness Practitioner with prescribing to be part of our medical practice in West Yorkshire. This is a unique 1-year locum position, with guaranteed sessions. You shall be part of a team of a large multi-professional team of GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners,Practice Nurses, Pharmacists and HCAs. Our ANPs lead on specific areas of interest.

Ths successful candidate shall work 6 hours per day with an hour gap, flexibily.

You will be an independent prescriber, fully registered and licensed with a healthcare professional body, with a right to work in the UK.

The post holder is expected to be up to date with current regional and national prescribing guidance, as well as NICE guidance.

Main duties of the job

This role shall be at the front-end of the Practice, and will be similar to a walk-in facility, except these patients will all be minor ailments and shall be booked on the day.

The successful candidate will be expected to see 5 patients per hour and shall be expected to work with the wider practice team.

About us

The Grange is a respected, long standing, well regarded large GP practice in Huddersfield, serving c.16,500 patients in Fartown, Birkby, Deighton and surrounding areas. The main site is 5 minutes from the M62 and easily accessible from all of West Yorkshire. The practice has successfully implemented and overhaul of teams and processes over the last 4 years.

The Grange hasa large, experienced multi-disciplinary team and we all have a passion for continually developing our teams/people. We innovatively look at developing our ways of working to ensure we deliver anhigh quality and effective service for our patients to achieve the best outcomes.

We are a supportive team with a long standing history of training doctors , Nurses (including ANPs), PAs and ensure that we take a great interest in developing all of our colleagues as well as their personal and professional development aspirations. We are proudly a learning organisation/environment and we strive to ensure that all patient related issues including complaints, queries, unusual presentations and also our own failings are looked on as a positive opportunity to learn from and to support colleagues and team development. Therefore a great emphasis is placed on learning and development, including annual internal appraisals, lunch and learn sessions, monthly protected learning sessions, clinical supervision and non medical prescribing learning and clinical audit sessions where all clinicians participate and lead on.