Job summary
We are looking for a Salaried GP on a permanent basis to work 4 to 6 sessions per week.

Meon Health Practice is looking for a Salaried GP to join our Practice across 3 sites. We are a long established, fully merged practice with around 35,000 patients. We have a diverse primary care team of social prescribers, pharmacists, physiotherapists, nurses and healthcare assistants, advanced nurse practitioners, physician associates, care coordinators, salaried GPs, retainer GPs and GP partners.

Meon Health Practice is innovative and high achieving, but more importantly, friendly, and welcoming practice continually seeking to improve our patient care services. We have a Triage team who deal with our patients same day health concerns

We have a Complex Care team who manage the needs of our housebound patients those in residential or nursing care, or those with increasing frailty

We are a well-established training practice.

Communication and teamwork is vital for us, and you will be part of a practice team who support each other with information and advice.

If we sound like people that you would like to work with, then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• The post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, triaging telephone consultations, queries, 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 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
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
• 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

About us
Meon Health Practice is made up of 3 sites - The Highlands Practice, Jubilee and Whiteley Surgery. Our staff can work across any of the sites listed.

Meon Health prides itself in the development and support of staff. We offer the following benefits

Employees Assistance Programme, Membership to The Company Shop, Blue Light Card - at a small cost, Cycle to work scheme, Eye Care Vouchers, NHS discounts on line, Birthday Leave

Job responsibilities
JOB TITLE: SALARIED GP 4 to 6 sessions per week
Pay: depending on experience
REPORTS TO: The Board
RESPONSIBLE TO: Partners
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.

Clinical responsibilities:
In accordance with the Organisations 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 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
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
• 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.

Other responsibilities within the organisation:
Awareness of and compliance with all relevant Organisation policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the Organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality:
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of working in general practice

Essential Criteria
Essential

• GMC Registered
• Experience in Primary Care
• Ability to provide quality care
• Good interpersonal and communicational skills

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).