General Practitioner

Job overview

This salaried GP role is based at BrisDoc's Charlotte Keel Medical Practice, in Easton.

No matter where you work these days, General Practice is a demanding job, but we are trying our best to enable a sustainable career through:

• Having a dedicated team responsible for Wellbeing within the BrisDoc family
• Meeting daily as a GP team for coffee and lunch
• Administrative staff to process letters and discharge summaries, dealing with clinical coding, reducing the paperwork burden for GPs
• Innovative GP access model led by GPs ensuring continuity of care and appropriate signposting
• Regular GO strategic meetings where all voices contribute to how we plan GP workload and access
• Paid overtime for completing mandatory and statutory training

Outside the Practice, Charlotte Keel GPs have roles in Education, Mentoring, the LMC/GPC, Sustainability and Urgent Care and a founder member of BNSSG Deep End Network. There is extensive experience to support a portfolio career and facilitate these networks.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, you will be available to undertake a proportionate share of a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triage, 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 from other health care workers within the organisation
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• 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
• In general, you will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care

Working for our organisation

BrisDoc is an employee-owned social enterprise with over twenty years of experience in providing NHS Healthcare. We serve over one million patients across the Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire through our Severnside Integrated Urgent Care, In-Hours Primary Care, and Homeless Health Service.

At BrisDoc, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and experiences.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, you will be available to undertake a proportionate share of a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triage, 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 from other health care workers within the organisation
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• 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
• In general, you will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

• Specific responsibility for agreed clinical areas; Lead GP will discuss and allocate
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate
• Be a member of the clinical team, attend clinical, education or business meetings and other meetings as appropriate and maintain close personal working relationships
• Seeks ways to reduce waste, water and energy usage within the office

• Full GMC registration
• Inclusion in an English Performers List as a GP

• Experience in any of the following desirable but not essential; family planning certificate, alcohol and substance abuse training
• Experience of delivery QOF
• Clait award and or ECDL or EITS
• Experience of and success at motivating and managing people in a changing environment
• Knowledge of national and local agenda in respect of primary care commissioning
• Familiarity with EMIS

• Good team player who is able to support, value and respect the contribution of all members
• Collaborative, adaptable, reflective and resilient
• Committed to continuous professional development and patient-centred care
• Able to self-analyse own work and performance

Person specification

Qualification

• Full GMC registration
• Inclusion in an English Performers List as a GP

Skills and Experience

• Experience of delivery QOF
• Familiarity with EMIS
• Knowledge of national and local agenda in respect of primary care commissioning

• Family planning certificate
• Alcohol and substance abuse training

Attributes

• Good team player able to support value and respect contribution of all members
• Committed to continuous professional development and patient-centred care