Job summary
Fairfield Park Health Centre are looking to welcome a 4 session Salaried GP to join our excellent team, working all day Wednesday and Friday.

Are you interested in working for a friendly and high performing practice, who have been rated Good by the CQC and where individuals are valued? Are you a caring and committed professional? If yes then we would love to hear from you.

We are a busy teaching practice with a well-established patient list but understand the need to manage workload to establish a work/life balance for our team. Currently we have 4 Partners and 6 salaried GPs and are located in a purpose-built surgery on the north side of Bath. We have a wide multidisciplinary team, which includes: ANPs, Nurses, HCAs, Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Physio & First Contact Physio and Social Prescriber. The team are all located on site.

Further information
For further information or to arrange an informal discussion please contact Emily Denham on 01225 983 995 or emily.denham1@nhs.net

How to apply
To apply for this position please do so at your earliest convenience by sending a CV and covering letter via email to emily.denham1@nhs.net

Main duties of the job
The post holder will manage a patient caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring a high standard of care for all our patients. In accordance with our practice rota (as agreed), the post holder will undertake a variety of duties, including face-to-face and telephone consultations, same day walk in and wait appointments, checking/signing repeat prescriptions and pro-rata duty doctor responsibility.

Our surgeries are a combination of either routine pre-booked or same day appointments and the format is a combination of telephone and face-to-face contacts.

We have a low home visiting rate as we have excellent support from our PCN Paramedic, and you will have opportunity for peer support at our regular clinical and non-clinical lunchtime meetings.

About us
Fairfield Park Health Centre is a well-established, partner-owned, training practice located in a purpose-built surgery on the north side of Bath, with beautiful views across the city, caring for a population of 14,400 patients, including the students at Bath Spa University.

We are part of the Bath Independent Primary Care Network, which gives us the opportunity to grow services across the 3 Practices and offers the opportunity of working together on initiatives with the support of the PCN Manager.

Job responsibilities

• 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.
• Referring patients 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.
• Assist with the supervision of registrars.
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within UK primary care.

Person Specification

Qualities - Essential

• Willingness to share and collaborate across entire primary health team.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams.
• Ability to work flexibly.
• Ability to recognize own limitations and act upon them appropriately.
• Willingness to learn new skills and to problem solve on a daily basis.

Qualifications - Essential

• Fully qualified GP, eligible to practice in the UK with GMC registration & on the Medical Performers List.
• Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate).
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.

Experience - Essential

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to prioritise work and work under pressure.
• Organised/efficient in record keeping and completion of paperwork.
• Clinical Governance.
• Delivery of QoF targets and other practice objectives/targets.

Experience - Desirable

• Experience of TPP SystmOne.
• Experience of Accurx.
• Adaptability to change.
• Service Development.
• Experience or willingness to support GP Registrars in their daily surgeries.
• Self-audit and reflection.

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.