Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced General Practitioner to join our team on Maternity Cover!

6 Sessions - Three full days - Mon, Thurs and Fri.

Acorn Group Practice is a well-established practice with a great team spirit.

Our Practice is located in Twickenham and has a patient population is just over 8,000 patients.

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking 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.
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Developing care plans for health and providing health education to patients
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• 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

The candidate will need to deliver an excellent standard of care whilst complying with the GMS contract. Alongside this, the candidate will adhere to the GMC standards for safe and good medical practice.

It is important that the candidate feels they will be able to contribute to the effectiveness of the Practice through leading by example, staying positive and building great working relationships with the team and wider health professionals.

About us

At Acorn Group Practice we have a fantastic clinical andadministration team!

The clinical team consist of : 2 GP Partners, 3 Salaried GPs, 1 ANP, 1 PA, 1Practice Nurse, 1 HCA and 2 Clinical Pharmacists. There are also PCN established SocialPrescribers and a Mental Health clinician.

The admin team consists of care coordinators andadmin / reception staff who are all well trained to support both patients andclinicians alike.

The Practice uses EMIS, DOCMAN and AccuRx as our clinicalsystems.

We are part of South West London ICB.

Job description

Job responsibilities

In general the candidate will be expected to undertake allthe normal duties and responsibilities associated with working within PrimaryCare as a General Practitioner :

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Qualifications

Essential