About the Role
Parkfield Medical Centre is a friendly and forward-thinking practice in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire and we currently require a salaried GP to join our team for 4 sessions a week. These must be to cover Monday afternoons and Fridays, morning and afternoon sessions.
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. Teamwork is an essential part of the role, working as part of our senior clinical team to provide quality care to our patients as well as supporting the wider practice core clinical workload.
Duties
* Surgery and telephone consultations and queries.
* Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
* Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
* Providing counselling and health education.
* Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
* Visiting patients at home.
* Checking and signing repeat prescriptions.
* Dealing with queries, paperwork, insurance forms and correspondence in a timely fashion.
About the Candidate
We pride ourselves on being a high achieving and well-established practice with a history of excellent staff retention and we are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, has positive energy, and a good sense of humour.
All applicants should have the following qualifications:
* Fully qualified GP with GMC registration.
* Be on the NHSE medical performers list.
And skills, including:
* Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services.
* Ability to take responsibility for your own career development, learning and performance and are responsible for ensuring that all your mandatory training is in date.
* Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
* Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner.
About Us
The practice provides services to a patient population of 13,000. We have 4 GP partners and 3 salaried GPs supported by a large multidisciplinary team including 1 matron, 2 practice nurses, 1 HCA, 1 paramedic, 1 phlebotomist and a practice pharmacist. We are a high achieving surgery in all clinical and quality areas.
* High QoF achievement.
* Modern, purpose built premises with excellent transport links to London, Hertfordshire and beyond.
* Established training practice for East of England VTS scheme and Cambridge Medical School undergraduates.
* Highly engaged patient participation group of over 2,000 members.
* Reputable training and teaching practice with a strong commitment to personal development and training across all staff groups.
* “Good” across all domains following CQC inspection in May 2016.
* A strong management team and a warm reception and administrative team.
* EMIS IT system.
* Weekly business meetings, monthly finance, and clinical meetings for all our clinical staff.
* Very active and supportive PPG.
* Onsite parking.
* No extended hours or weekend commitments.
* Support with professional development.
If you would like to arrange an informal visit please contact: Emily Clayton, business manager at Emily.clayton4@nhsnet.
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