Salaried GP - Newly Qualified (PCN ARRS Role)

Salaried GP - Newly Qualified (PCN ARRS Role)

We have an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified GP (within 2 years of qualification) to join our team as a PCN General Medical Practitioner. Initially on a fixed term contract until the end of March 2025.

You would be required to work 4 sessions per week across Bloomfield Medical Centre and Waterloo Medical Centre.

If it is less than two years since you qualified and you have not been substantively employed within a GP practice since that date, this fulfilling role could be for you.

Main duties of the job

• Primary Responsibilities
• Patient Consultations
• Chronic Disease Management
• Prevention Care & Screening
• Referral & Coordination of Care
• Health Promotion Public Health & Community Engagement
• Quality Improvement

About us

Blackpool South Central Primary Care Network consists of thefollowing practices:

• Bloomfield Medical Centre
• Waterloo Medical Centre

TheWaterloo Medical Centre is well established in the community and has a patientpopulation of over 12000 patients. The practice consists of 5 GP Partners, 1Salaried GP, 3 Practice Nurses, 1 HCA, 1 Nursing Associate, 1 Physiotherapist,2 Pharmacists, 1 Pharmacy Technician and 12 Admin/Reception staff. We are abusy friendly forward thinking practice. Waterloo Medical Centre is a trainingpractice that has 2 GP Registrars.

BloomfieldMedical Centre is a 8 Partner GP Practice Primary Care provider based over twosites in Blackpool, Bloomfield Medical Centre on Bloomfield Road and GrangePark Health Centre on Dinmore Avenue.Our services are diverse, forward-thinking enabling us to deliver careto meet local priorities in relation to deprivation, chronic disease, improvedaccess, migration from secondary care and more efficient commissioning.

Weprovide high quality general medical care to a registered list of over 16,000patients over the two sites, through our dedicated team of clinical,administrative and management professionals including 8 GP Partners, Salarieddoctors, Clinical Pharmacists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, NursePractitioners, Practice Nurses and Healthcare Assistants.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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/community settings, checking, and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork, and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• 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.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute 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, including participation in the Duty Team on call arrangements.

Person Specification Qualifications

• The applicant must be a qualified GP with full GMC registration licence to practice, on a performers list and have a UK drivers licence

Experience

• Experience of working in a GP practice using EMIS

Personal Attributes

• Observance of strict confidentiality
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to listen and empathise
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Competent time management and organisational skills
• Adaptable and forward looking with problem solving and a solutions focused approach
• A demonstrable commitment to professional development

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.