General Practitioner
Full time @Interviews Gulf posted 5 days ago in Health Care Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 1530
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Offered Salary 1000
Job Description
Responsibilities
As a GP, you’ll typically need to:
- respond to patients’ medical or health problems by referring to their history and carrying out diagnosis, investigation, treatment, and referral as appropriate
- maintain confidentiality and impartiality
- liaise with medical professionals in the community and hospitals
- promote health education in conjunction with other health professionals
- organise preventative medical programmes for individual patients
- provide specialist clinics for specific conditions or for certain groups, such as diabetes, smoking cessation and new babies
- meet targets set by the government for specific treatments, such as child immunisations
- discuss the development of new pharmaceutical products with pharmaceutical sales representatives
- carry out a range of administrative work, including signing repeat prescriptions, death certificates and fitness for work statements, as well as preparing letters and reports
- attend staff meetings
- keep up to date with medical developments, new drugs, treatments and medications, including complementary medicine
- observe and assess the work of trainee GPs and medical students and in some cases, teach at medical schools or hospitals.
If you become a GP partner, you will oversee the running of your own practice as a business and will need to:
- make decisions on the running, development and future of the practice
- keep financial records and make sure the practice runs within budget
- recruit and arrange training for staff
- carry out audits
- commission hospital services for the community.
Salary
- Salaried general practitioners (GPs) in England earn £68,975 to £104,085 depending on the length of service and experience.
- GP partners are self-employed and receive a share of the profits of the business.
Salaried GPs receive additional benefits such as sick pay, holiday and maternity pay. If you’re working as a partner GP you won’t receive these benefits and will be responsible for paying your own tax.
Working hours
A working day lasts from around 8am until 6.30pm but this can vary. Some of this time will be in appointments with patients and some of it will be spent on admin and phone calls.
You may be expected to work outside these hours as some surgeries open on a Saturday morning or late evenings. In these instances, it’s likely you’ll work on a rota system to cover the appointments. You might also be asked to work ‘out of hours’ (on-call) and during public holidays.
There are many opportunities to work flexibly or part time. Career breaks are possible although you’ll need to keep up to date with any relevant developments in the field. Taking a career break for longer than two years will typically require some retraining.