About this role
Job summary
Beauchamp House Surgery is looking for a salaried GP to join their busy practice, covering 4 sessions a week with 2 sessions on Fridays, and 2 sessions on Thursdays or Wednesdays.
Working as part of our multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to support and care for a diverse patient group. The role will include all general duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
Main duties of the job
- Undertaking 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, reports and correspondence in a timely fashion.
- Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting medical problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisation.
- Assessing the healthcare 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 health education.
- Recording clear consultation notes to agreed standards.
- Collecting data for audit purposes and complying with QOF requirements.
- Delivering enhanced services.
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions.
- All general duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
- Home visits are few.
- You will be required to participate in some clinical meetings.
For further information, please see the attached job description.
About us
Beauchamp House Surgery is long established training GP practice, located in Chelmsford city centre, caring for approximately 11,500 patients. We are committed to providing compassionate, patient-centred care in a friendly, supportive, and collaborative working environment. We are a non-dispensing GMS practice, operating a total triage model. As a training practice, we actively promote teaching and education all staff.We are proud of the high standard of care we provide and are rated Good by the CQC. We consistently achieve excellent QOF outcomes and are committed to continuous quality improvement.We place a strong emphasis on supporting the development of our team, encouraging ongoing learning and providing opportunities for colleagues to expand their skills and progress in their careers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information regarding this vacancy, please see the job description or get in touch with Primary Care Careers.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
- Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
- Be on the NHSE medical performers list
Experience
Essential
- 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.
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 (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
Beauchamp House
37 Baddow Rd
Chelmsford
Essex
CM2 0DB
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)