Job Summary
Looking for an enthusiastic GP for a Salaried role of up to 5 sessions a week. This is a permanent Salaried contract role.

Main duties of the job

• Face to face consultations.
• Telephone consultation.
• Duty Doctor responsibilities.
• Routine follow-up (e.g. pathology, referrals, hospital correspondence, prescriptions).
• Home visits.
• Planned care/chronic disease management.
• Acute care.
• Involvement in practice-level clinical decision making.

About us
Hawthorns Surgery is a renowned CQC rated GOOD Surgery in Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield and the Surgery is led by a 5 GP Partnership.

The Hawthorns Surgery is a busy practice and is also an Undergraduate and Postgraduate training practice. The Hawthorns Surgery is a forward thinking practice but have fought hard to maintain a personal list system which research has proved to be best practice.

We score well on the GP Patient Survey, which we believe reflects our ethos as a family practice focussed on high quality and safe patient care.

The practice has an exceptional clinical and non-clinical team with outstanding staff retention rates. The practice operates out of a purpose-built surgery, offering facilities to provide patient centred medicine supported by EMIS web (clinical system).

The surgery also provides in-house Minor Surgery, Physio (FCP) and Joint Injections services.

A strong support team is in place to deliver the service including Practice Nurses, Clinical Pharmacists, Social Prescriber, Physician Associate, Clinical Coders/Scanners, Practice Secretaries, experienced and fully trained Reception team and a designated Prescription Clerks.

Job responsibilities
A range of regular clinical duties, including:

• Face to face consultations
• Telephone consultation
• Duty doctor responsibilities
• Routine follow-up (e.g. pathology, referrals, hospital correspondence, prescriptions)
• Home visits
• Planned care/chronic disease management
• Acute care
• Involvement in practice-level clinical decision making

The post-holder will be expected to undertake a share of non-clinical duties within the practice, including:

• Involvement/engagement with practice PCN duties/meetings
• Participation in practice meetings (clinical and otherwise)
• Involvement with practice-level administrative/business decision making
• Involvement in service development and quality improvement

The role will involve engaging in all the regular duties of a GP, making professional and autonomous decisions where necessary, while being guided by overall practice policies, work streams, and procedures, consulting with senior GP colleagues for collective decision making where necessary, and all responsibilities associated within a GP working within primary care.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of working with EMIS
• Experience and understanding of working with diverse patient populations

Qualifications
Essential

• Full GMC registration and license to practice
• Inclusion on NHS GP Performers List
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent team working skills
• Commitment to high-quality patient care
• Good understanding of Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement
• Good understanding of standards for record keeping
• Commitment to CPD
• Patient-centred approach to care
• Full Driving License

Desirable

• Special Interests in Minor Surgery or Joint Injections or any other GP with Special Interests.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

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