Job summary
This is an exiting opportunity for a General Practitioner to join our clinical team.

Crawcrook Medical Centre is a growing Practice of 20,500 patients. We have well managed branch surgeries at Rowlands Gill Medical Centre, Grange Road Medical Practice, and Blaydon GP Led Practice.

Our clinical team have bi-weekly clinical meetings and meet regularly during coffee breaks to support each other.

We have excellent support from a wider team including physios, counsellors adult and children, health and well-being coach, care navigators, community link workers. As well as document management team who process all incoming letters supported by Medicine Management Team who action any medication request and deal with queries.

Our sessional rate is based on full time hours over 4 days.

Job summary
Each session includes the following:

• 14 face to face 15 min appointments and completion of related clinical administration.
• Fair share of visits when required (normally completed by Nurse Practitioners)
• Fair share of bloods, tasks and medical reports (part-completed by non-clinical staff)
• Assisting completion of the urgent clinical task group and routine clinical task group.
• Other reasonable duties as required

Main duties of the job

• Provide high quality patient care
• Provide face to face and telephone consultations as required
• Effectively utilise in house and external services when needed
• Complete all clinical administration work related to patients seen
• Work collaboratively and contribute to the management and completion of general clinical administration, including bloods, tasks, urgent enquiries, medical reports, for example
• Attend and contribute to clinical practice meetings as required
• Ensure that each patient encounter is maximised to attain contractual target requirements

About us
The Fuller and Forbes Partnership is a primary care provider with practices currently in Leeds, Burnley, Gateshead and Devon.

The organisation provides care to 56,000 patients using a diversified clinical team consisting of on-the-ground paramedics, ANPs, ACPs, Clinical Pharmacists, and a nursing team, with clinical supervision and mentorship by GPs.

The organisation is patient-driven and has used patient feedback in the past to develop innovative services such as a bespoke smart phone app, patient-centred practice websites, joint working with the third sector and a bespoke e-consultation service. The econsultation service is accessible through both the smart phone app and website and has provided over 33,000 e-consultations in the last 2 years. The organisation currently receives around 70-100 econsults per day across all sites.

Job responsibilities

• Utilisation of EMIS clinical system
• Consult with patient face to face and by telephone as required
• Undertake home visits when required, supported by Rapid Response Team.
• Prescribe, refer, treat and advise patients as required
• Respond to clinical queries from the wider team
• Contribute to completion of the clinical task group
• Fair share of clinical administration, including tasks, bloods, and other general duties,
• Complete medical reports as and when required (shared out across the team)
• Provide support to the wider clinical team including being available to our highly experienced ANPs when required
• Other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time

(please note, protected time will be available for certain duties)

Person Specification

Qualifications
Essential

• Medical degree
• Full registration with GMC

Desirable

• GP registrar training
• Completion of GP vocational Training

Experience
Essential

• Experience of using EMIS clinical system.

Desirable

• Experience or interest in training other trainee GPs and trainee practitioners.

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.

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