Salaried GP

Swadlincote Surgery have an exciting opportunity for a GP to join the practice on a permanent position.

The opportunity is for 5 sessions per week with one on-call every 2 weeks. Start date would ideally be June 2025.

Swadlincote Surgery is a long established training practice with a list size of 14,000 patients. The GP role benefits from the support of an experienced clinical and admin practice team.

We are looking for a dynamic and motivated GP to join us to support us in continuing to provide an excellent healthcare experience for all of our patients.

If you have a specialist area of interest please also include this within your application.

Main duties of the job

Provide a full range of medical services and additional enhanced services where appropriate.

The post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery & telephone consultations and queries, home visits, checking & signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence.

To record clear and contemporaneous computer based consultation notes to agreed standards.

Make 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.

Providing counselling and health education.

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.

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.

About us

Swadlincote Surgery is committed to providing a supportive environment for all of our staff, where staff are actively encouraged to develop and grow. The team benefit from an array of experienced clinicians, managers and GP partners who are open, supportive and make for a fantastic team environment.

We are active with the local PCN and are forward thinking in terms of developing new initiatives to offer enhanced services to our patients.

The practice is a teaching practice.

If you have a specialist interest we are keen to encourage development within this area in line with the demands associated with our practice demographic.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

Provide a full range of medical services as defined in the core GMS contract and additional enhanced services where appropriate.

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.

To record clear and contemporaneous computer based consultation notes to agreed standards using SystmOne.

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.

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 and repeat 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.

Other Responsibilities within the Organisation

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.

A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.

Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation.

Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records.

Contributing to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data.

Attending training and events organised by the Practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Person Specification Experience

• Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services.
• Ability to take responsibility for your own career development, learning and performance and are responsible for ensuring that all your mandatory training is in date.
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
• Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified GP with GMC registration.
• Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate).
• Be on the NHSE medical performers list.

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.