A fantastic opportunity has become available for a GP to join our team at Merrow Park Surgery, located just outside Guildford, on a maternity cover basis starting April 2025!
Days: 4 Sessions a week on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Join our thriving team, as we seek to further develop high quality, accessible & holistic healthcare for our patient population as well as providing a supportive & learning work environment for the health & wellbeing of all of our staff.
* We have fully embraced the best of the digital offerings to enhance both our patient care, as well as our work efficiencies. We use EMIS, the full Accurx package including total triage, Docman and Ardens.
* The successful candidate will be confident in supporting clinical triage and care navigation of patients as well providing care to patients face to face, over the telephone and sometimes in their own homes.
* Our vision for the practice, our staff and patients, is only achievable and sustainable, if clinicians have reasonable workloads, supported by excellent organisation and teamwork, which if necessary challenge secondary care models or patient expectations of GP service delivery.
* Our clinical team meet daily informally over lunch, and more formally in weekly extended lunchtime Monday meeting. Meeting notes are available for colleagues not present.
Main duties of the job
* Undertaking 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.
* 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 and providing health education to patients.
* Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
* 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.
The candidate will need to deliver an excellent standard of care whilst complying with the GMS contract. Alongside this, the candidate will adhere to the GMC standards for safe and good medical practice.
It is important that the candidate feels they will be able to contribute to the effectiveness of the Practice through leading by example, staying positive and building great working relationships with the team and wider health professionals.
About us
* Purpose built & partner-owned, single premises with staff parking and nearby amenities.
* List size 11,800.
* Personal lists and equalisation of workload.
* Dynamic partnership, particularly involved with PCN, LMC Liaison, Clinical Supervision, Quality Improvement and Lifestyle medicine, as well as a shared focus on staff wellbeing.
* Encouraged/instilled a no-blame/learning culture raising Learning Events where workflow & process issues are identified before developing into Significant Events.
* Specialist clinics developed out of individual GP clinical interests.
* Dedicated organised administration team with a vision to decrease GP administrative work to allow focus on clinical decision-making.
* First Contact Physios - first point of contact for MSK issues.
* Health & Wellbeing Coach furthering our vision towards patient empowerment.
* We are proud to offer a range of innovative services to support our patients and enhance the care we provide:
* GPiMHS Mental Health Support and Adult Social Prescribers & Young Peoples Social Prescribing initiative.
* Youth Worker Pilot Program, currently in its early stages, designed to place a dedicated youth worker at our surgery.
* Onsite Chaplaincy Service.
* Prescribing Pharmacist and Pharmacy technician support remotely through ARRS PCN.
* The practice has no nursing homes.
* Protected, daily coffee meeting for the whole clinical team.
* Extended Monday clinical meeting for clinicians CPD, shared learning +/- outside consultant speakers.
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the salaried GP. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
1. The delivery of highly effective medical care to the entitled population.
2. The provision of services commensurate with the GMS contract.
3. Generic prescribing adhering to local and national guidance.
4. Effective management of long-term conditions.
5. Processing of administration in a timely manner, including referrals, repeat prescription requests and other associated administrative tasks.
6. On a rotational basis, undertake telephone triage and duty doctor roles.
7. Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with good practice, policy and guidance.
8. Working collaboratively, accepting an equal share of the practice workload.
9. Adhere to best practice recommended through clinical guidelines and the audit process.
10. Contribute to the successful implementation of continuous improvement and quality initiatives within the practice.
11. Accept delegated responsibility for a specific area (or areas) or the QOF.
12. Attend and contribute effectively to practice meetings as required.
13. Ensure compliance with the appraisal process.
14. Prepare and complete the revalidation process.
15. Commit to self-learning and instil an ethos of continuing professional development across the practice team.
16. Support the training of medical students from all clinical disciplines.
17. Review and adhere to practice protocols and policies at all times.
18. Encourage collaborative working, liaising with all staff regularly, promoting a culture of continuous improvement at all times.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working in a primary care environment.
* Experience of continued professional development.
* Experience of QOF and clinical audit.
* General understanding of the GMS contract.
* Minimum of two years as a salaried GP.
* Experience of medicines management.
* Experience of CCG initiatives.
Qualifications
* Qualified GP.
* MRCGP.
* Vocational Training Certificate or equivalent JCPTGP.
* General Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training CCT).
* Full GMC Registration.
* National Performers List registration.
* Eligibility to practice in the UK independently.
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.
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