We are looking to appoint a Salaried GP to join our Practice for 6-8 sessions per week. The Rookery is a friendly, patient-focussed practice, rated Good by CQC in all domains.
• 6-8 sessions per week
• Opportunity for additional sessions on an ad-hoc basis
• Annual leave 6 weeks pro-rata per year + Bank Holiday Entitlement
• One week of paid study leave (pro-rata)
• On-site car parking
• BMA endorsed contract of employment
• Practice-funded indemnity cover
About us
The Rookery Medical Centre is a GMS Practice in Suffolk practically equidistant to Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds. Our list size is approximately 14,150.
Our Practice has 12 GPs supported by a dynamic clinical and admin team including an ECP, Virtual Pharmacists, Practice Nurses, a Nursing Assistant, a FCP, Healthcare Assistants, a Health and Wellbeing Coach, Social Prescriber, and care navigators.
- We use SystmOne, Ardens, AccuRx and refer via DXS which is a local database containing all pathways and profromas
- We work collaboratively with our local PCN, Forest Heath, which contains 7 other local Practices covering over 70,000 patients
- Dispensing Practice
- Regular clinical and team meetings
- Staff training and development is encouraged and facilitated
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
- Patient consultations either face-to-face or by telephone. We triage all patients first so a normal session will usualy have phone appointments in the fist instance with space to schedule patients who you think need to be seen face-to-face
- Clinical admin including completing tasks and filing or actioning results and documents
- Assisting medical emergencies within the Practice
- Providing support to other members of the clinical team
- Participating in team meetings
- Contributing to audits where appropriate or necessary
In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including
- Face-to-face clinics and telephone consultations
- Visiting patients at home or within a care home where necessary
- Supporting Care Navigators with patient triage and participating in Duty Doctor sessions
- Checking and signing repeat prescriptions
- Dealing with queries, tasks, results, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
- 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
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions using the ETP service where appropriate
- Prescribing in accordance with guidelines, practice policy and where 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.
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