General Practitioner - Furnace House Surgery

A salaried GP post at Furnace House Surgery, a seven-partner practice with around 15,000 patients. The work centres on managing a caseload of undifferentiated presentations through surgery and telephone consultations, home visits, repeat prescribing and on call duties, with some supervision of training doctors. The post is for 6 to 8 sessions a week, with job share and flexible patterns considered, and the practice is a training site that offers mentoring for newly qualified GPs. Fit depends on full GMC registration, medical defence cover and inclusion on a local performers list.

What the job involves

• Manage a caseload of patients presenting with a wide range of primary care health needs
• Carry out surgery consultations, telephone consultations and home visits in line with the practice timetable
• Make autonomous clinical decisions, assess undifferentiated problems and develop care plans with patients
• Issue and sign repeat and acute prescriptions, prescribing in line with the formulary
• Admit, discharge and refer patients internally and externally as appropriate
• Support trainers and give clinical supervision to training doctors
• Provide on call cover, answering patient telephone queries and carrying out emergency home visits
• Contribute to clinical governance, audit, data collection and clinical standard setting
• Keep clear, contemporaneous IT consultation notes and handle paperwork and correspondence promptly
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early illness, and provide counselling and health education
• Contribute to practice planning, policies, guidelines and decision making with the team
• Attend training, practice meetings and events, and meet audit and return deadlines

What's required Registration & licences

• Full and unrestricted GMC registration
• Membership of a medical defence body
• Inclusion on a local performers list

Other

• Commitment to lifelong learning and audit to ensure evidence-based practice
• Annual appraisal and accreditation evidence
• Flexibility in duties and location of work where the practice requires

What's offered

• Competitive salary package including a contribution towards medical indemnity
• BMA model contract
• Regular mentorship sessions for newly qualified GPs
• Multidisciplinary support from pharmacists, chronic disease nurses and a specialist diabetic nurse
• Flexible working, including job share
• Training practice links with the GP Training Scheme and Swansea University Medical School
• Support for staff wellbeing and development