Job Description

The GP will be expected to:

Fulfil their share of Routine and Urgent appointments. Prescribe as per local & national guidelines Accept a share of visits routine and emergency; Accept responsibility and time-manage completion of administration: letter, results, referrals, telephone calls and home visits; Accept and manage a share of queries relating to patients; Take responsibility for appropriate referrals (following local guidance and good medical practice) and administration pertaining to them, bearing in mind that referrals will be involved in a peer review process; Meet targets for QOF as part of day to day role; Sign a share of repeat prescriptions each day ; Complete a share of child protection, insurance & DWP reports & medicals; Attend Mental Health Sections. This would be ideally carried out by the GP who knows the patient best, where possible, otherwise responsibility lies with the On Call doctor at the time when the call is received; Attend Child Protection reviews where appropriate (sessions will be backfilled with locum cover as necessary); Complete cremation forms and death certificates, bearing in mind that some GPs may not yet be able to complete Part 2 of the cremation form; Cover for colleagues in exceptional circumstances such as sudden illness, taking into account the individual doctors external commitments such as childcare. The role of the On Call Doctor All doctors will be expected to fulfil their routine responsibilities as detailed above during an On Call session.

The On Call doctor should be prepared to:

Field & manage queries from reception, admin & nursing staff/healthcare assistants on an ad hoc basis. See patients in both pre-booked and on the day/urgent appointments. Contact patients for scheduled telephone appointments and take urgent telephone calls from patients and liaise with other healthcare professionals as required. Visits before twelve are routine & to be shared between all doctors.



Visit requests after 12.30pm triaged by the on-call GP as urgent for that day or as routine for the following day. Be present in the building unless on a visit, when they should be contactable by mobile phone in the event of an emergency. The individual doctors should be responsible for having a mobile phone fully charged. ESSENTIAL DESIRABLE Education /Qualification GMC Registration