Maternity Locum
Job Description
Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for 4 session maternity cover GP to join our team in the Georgian market town of Farnham with good local schools and excellent transport links to London.As a practice we are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and committed GP.We use a clinical triage platform called askmyGP
Main duties of the job
The role will be within Farnham Park Health Group. The practice is innovative, friendly, forward-thinking, family practice, working collaboratively with other surgeries in Farnham. The successful applicant will share our ethos and commitment to delivering the best possible care to our patients. We have 4 Partners, 5 Salaried GPs, Excellent multi-skilled practice nurse team, List Size on 1st July, 17,400. EMIS Web & Docman, Part of Farnham Integrated Care Services, working in collaboration with local practices, offering same day access, MSK Practitioners, Part of Farnham Primary Care Network working with Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician, Consistently high QOF achiever, Workflow Optimisation with clinical practice nurse support.
About us
The role will be within Farnham Park Health Group. The practice is innovative, friendly, forward-thinking, family practice, looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and committed GP to take an active role within our team, working collaboratively with other surgeries in Farnham. The successful applicant will share our ethos and commitment to delivering the best possible care to our patients.
Job responsibilities
In accordance with the Practice rota, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including 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, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organization
Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health
Providing counselling and health education
Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes using clinical system templates, Read Coding non-template entries or otherwise recording to agreed standards
Collecting data for audit purposes
Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
Prescribing in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
Deal with all NHS paperwork for own patient list plus a share of that of the other GPs (as needed, during holidays or other absences) whilst building the post-holders own list i.e., results, letters, forms, scanned documents
Proactively manage patients to ensure that Quality & Outcome Framework targets are achieved or any other government required initiatives as requested by the partners
In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- UK Licence to practice
- MRCGP and on the performers list
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Farnham Park Health Group
Address
Hale Road
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 9QS
