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Job Title


Salaried GP


Company : NHS


Location : Watford, England


Created : 2026-02-21


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Exciting opportunity has arisen for a 5 session salaried GP to join our team at Bridgewater Surgeries. The role will be working across 4 sites with a working pattern of Wed/Thurs/Fri.Main duties of the job The post-holder will manage a caseload of patients and dealwith a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring thehighest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.This role will include:-A pro rata commitment of duty/on call sessionsDomiciliary/Nursinghome visits on a shared and demand basisAttendanceat weekly lunchtime meetings (a mixture of MDT, staff and clinicalmeetings which will offer clinical education, SEA and can be used for appraisalpurposesAlist of usual patientsDebriefingPhysicians Associates, trainees, medical studentsAshare of extended hours allocation.About us BRIDGEWATER SURGERIESWe are a large, dynamic trainingPractice with a growing list size of over 36,000 patients across 4 sites.About the practice:13 Partners, 12 Salaried GPs along with a team of PA's, Nurses, HCA, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and AdminWe are a training Practice for GPRegistrars, Medical Students, Physician Associates.SystmOne usersJob responsibilities Job summary:The post-holder will manage a caseload and dealwith a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring thehighest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.Clinical responsibilities:In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, thepost-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety ofduties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations andqueries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeatprescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in atimely fashionMaking professional, autonomous decisions in relation topresenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other healthcare workers within the organisationAssessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiatedand undiagnosed problemsScreening patients for disease risk factors and early signs ofillnessDeveloping care plans for health in consultation with patients andin line with current practice disease management protocolsProviding counselling and health educationAdmitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload andreferring to other care providers as appropriateRecording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreedstandardsCompiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeatprescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary(or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriateIn general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all thenormal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working withinprimary care.Person Specification QualificationsQualified GPMRCGPVocational Training Certificate or equivalentGeneral Practitioner (Certificate of Completion of Training)Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.#J-18808-Ljbffr