Job summary
The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Beechfield Medical Centre can offer a Tier 2 Sponsorship.

Main duties of the job

• In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves 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.
• The practice allows 15 minutes per appointment.
• Beechfield Medical Centre has a morning break where all clinicans are invited to come to together as a chance to connect.

About us
Beechfield Medical Centre is a well-established and highly regarded GP practice based in the heart of the Lincolnshire market town of Spalding, operating from modern purpose built premises. We are looking to appoint several new team members as we look to develop and enhance the services we are able to offer to our nearly 22,000 patients.

Beechfield is a Veteran Friendly Practice, a Learning Disability Friendly Practice with GOLD status, and was the first practice in Lincolnshire to achieve GOLD status through the Lincolnshire People Promise Trailblazer programme. We are also proud to be a Menopause Friendly workplace.

The Practice has also achieved a 93% score through the 5 Star Quality Award, alongside numerous local and regional awards and nominations for our teams and individual colleagues.

These achievements are something to celebrate, but they are not the end goal. They reflect the culture we want to maintain: inclusive, supportive, ambitious and continually improving.

Job responsibilities

• In accordance with the Practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves 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
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare 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
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• 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.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of continued professional development
• Experience of QOF and clinical audit
• Experience of working in a primary care environment

Desirable

• Minimum of two years as a salaried GP
• Experience of medicines management
• Experience of CCG initiatives

Qualifications
Essential

• Qualified GP
• General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT)
• MRCGP
• Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).