Maternity GP Cover

Hamble Valley Health needs a GP to cover maternity leave for 12 months, based at Blackthorn Health Centre with work at Bursledon Surgery and Hedge End Medical Centre. The core of the role is consultations, home visits, prescriptions, results and correspondence for a patient list, plus urgent care centre shifts. It is six sessions over three days with a holding list, and the operational director turn every three to four weeks runs 8am to 6.30pm. Newly qualified and experienced GPs are considered; terms follow the BMA model contract.

What the job involves

• Provide surgery and telephone consultations and home visits in line with the practice timetable
• Make autonomous clinical decisions on presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred within the practice
• Assess undifferentiated and undiagnosed health needs and screen for disease risk factors
• Develop care plans in line with disease management protocols, and provide counselling and health education
• Compile computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, checking and signing repeats, prescribing from the formulary where clinically appropriate
• Manage prescriptions, pathology results and incoming correspondence for own patient list
• Act as operational director and clinical lead for the urgent care centre about once every three to four weeks
• Work shifts in the urgent care centre at Bursledon Surgery on a fair share rota
• Admit and discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers as appropriate
• Record clear, contemporaneous consultation notes with appropriate coding and electronic templates
• Collect data for audit purposes
• Carry out the normal duties and responsibilities of a GP working in primary care

What's required Qualifications

• Medical qualifications

Registration & licences

• GMC registration
• Inclusion on the NHSE Performers list

Checks & eligibility

• DBS check

Other

• Membership of a recognised defence organisation

Nice to have

• Qualified in medicine

What's offered

• Terms and conditions equivalent to the BMA model contract