Location
King's Lynn
Department
Southgates Medical Centre
Advertising Salary
£104,776.21 FTE
Function
GP
Careers Site Advertising End Date
31 Jan 2025
Vacancy
8765
About the Role
Southgates and the Woottons are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and dedicated salaried GP to join our well established practices, split over two sites.
 
The post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.
 
Clinical responsibilities will include:
  • Undertaking 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 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.
  • 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.
  • Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
  • Applying practice policies, standards and guidance.
About the Candidate
All applicants should have the following qualifications:
 
  • Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
  • Annual appraisal and revalidation (when appropriate)
  • Be on the NHSE medical performers list
and skills, including:
 
  • Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management and primary prevention and screening services.
  • Ability to take responsibility for your own career development, learning and performance and are responsible for ensuring that all your mandatory training is in date.
  • Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
  • Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
  • Excellent inter-personal and communication skills in a confidential manner.


About Us
We have a combined list size of over 22,000 patients and provide our services to patients through a team of dedicated GPs, nurse practitioners, practice nurses, health care support workers and a robust and efficient administrative team. The practice also offers minor surgical procedures to the local population and GP led palliative care to a local hospice.
 
Kings Lynn is a beautiful historical town located in west Norfolk with direct rail links to Cambridge and London. There is a wealth of shopping facilities as well as restaurants, public houses and all the usual amenities expected of a market town. There are 3 secondary schools and one college all located in the town, plus further secondary Schools in the surrounding villages. The Royal Estate of Sandringham and the coastal town of Hunstanton are right on the doorstep.
 

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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