General Practitioner

St Johns House Medical Centre, Worcester is looking for a committed salaried GP to join our practice team to help shape our future growth. We have strong connections to our PCN, with a great multi-generational patient population .

The Practice

List size of 13,800

An innovative and supportive team, comprising of two partners, six GPs, three trainee ACPs, two practice pharmacists, three nurses, three HCAs, a practice manager, an operations manager, reception managers, receptionists, administrators and secretaries.

The Practice is consistently benchmarked as high performing in ICB and PCN contracts across a range of indicators, including referrals and prescribing.

Bi-weekly MDT with social and community care.

Training practice.

The Role

We are offering 6 sessions working on Monday, Thursday & Friday.

Interests and personal development strongly encouraged.

Support for being/becoming a trainer for interested candidates.

Mentorship for portfolio roles, including future leadership roles in the wider community/health care

The Team

Young, dynamic clinical team who work extremely well together.

Excellent pharmacy team (two clinical pharmacists and two PMCs) who deal with all medical related queries and offer a duty pharmacist daily alongside pharmacist support provided by Worcester City PCN.

Innovative frailty and care home services with GP leadership.

Strong links with social prescribing, including mental health and well-being support.

Open door/supportive team. There's always someone to ask or just to share a problem or some humour.

Daily paid coffee break and chat.

Fully engaged with PCN.

Opportunities for more collaborative working and new primary care roles.

Emis system, alongside Docman, X-on/Surgery Connect & Accurx.

The Benefits

Excellent working environment.

Inhouse CPD in addition to study leave.

Aiming for longer appointments for complex patients to improve care and reduce time pressure on clinicians.

Flexibility for work/life balance, designing work around other commitments.

Sociable team with coffee breaks blocked out in the morning.

Clinical Responsibilities:

Thepost-holder is expected to take due note of and act in accordance with the standards of clinical governance that are agreed within the practice. Anyconcerns should be brought to the attention of the partners as soon aspracticable.

In accordance with the practice timetable, the post-holder will make him/herselfavailable to undertake a variety of duties including: surgery consultations,telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking andsigning repeat prescriptions, taking action on electronic prescriptionrequests, and dealing with queries,paperwork and correspondence, (including electronic correspondence), dealing with patient test results and medical reports, referral letters, paperwork andother correspondence in a timely fashion

Makeprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers

Assessthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems

Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, develop care plans for health

Providecounselling and health education

Admitor discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers as appropriate

Recordclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, primarily byuse of the computer system and complete the clinical system clinical templatesas appropriate

Collect and use data for audit purposes

Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribein accordance with the practice standards and locally agreed or nationalguidelines whenever this is clinically appropriate

Ingeneral the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Other Responsibilities Within the Practice:

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant policies/guidelines including,…