About the role
Salary: Negotiable
As a Salaried GP in general practice, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality, holistic care to a diverse patient population. You will be responsible for managing a range of acute, chronic, and preventative health issues, working both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role involves conducting face-to-face, telephone, and online consultations, managing patient lists, and contributing to clinical decision-making and service development
This role involves delivering safe, effective, and compassionate general medical services to our diverse patient population. Working as part of the wider clinical team at Tower Family Healthcare, the post-holder will carry out a full range of GP duties including face-to-face and telephone consultations, home visits, reviewing test results, managing repeat prescriptions, and handling clinical correspondence. You will assess and manage undifferentiated and diagnosed conditions, screen for disease risk factors, and develop evidence-based care plans. The role also includes health education, referrals, prescribing in line with formulary guidance, maintaining accurate records, contributing to audits, and supporting service development. Flexibility to work across our four branch sites is essential to help meet patient demand.
To provide caring, safe and effective general medical services to our
patient population
To contribute to the design & development of services within
Tower Family Healthcare
In accordance with the Tower Family Healthcare rota, as agreed, you
will make yourself available to undertake a variety of duties, including
surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients
at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, review and follow-up of
blood test results 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 organisation
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 in consultation with patients and
in line with current practice disease management protocols
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 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
In general, you will be expected to undertake all the normal
duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care
Providing cover across each of our 4 branches
for other members of our clinical team in order to meet patient demand
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
evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
Contributing to
the development of computer-based patient records
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.
Take part in
significant events analysis / meetings