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Salaried GP at Swan Medical Group

Position Available: Salaried GP – 4 to 6 sessions per week

About Swan Medical Group
We are seeking an additional salaried GP to join our esteemed team, comprising 14 Partners, 15 salaried GPs, and a robust Nurse team delivering Rapid Access services and Chronic Disease management. With a patient base of 37,000 individuals, this is an exciting opportunity for a motivated GP to contribute to the team.

Location
We operate across five sites in Hampshire, including one in Petersfield, two in Liss, and two in Liphook. As part of our commitment to sustainability and quality care, we are seeking a 4-6 session Salaried GP to work at either of our village surgeries in Liphook, taking on an established patient list. GP’s will work alongside a supportive team of healthcare professionals including clinical pharmacists, physiotherapists, and a dedicated frailty team.

Why Choose Swan Medical Group?

CQC rated Outstanding

Personal list based system, which focuses on continuity of care for patients
Practice ethos and focus on clinical education and development
Weekly clinical education and training meetings
Accredited Training Practice with 4 GP trainers
Excellent QOF achievement
Proactive Patient Participation Group
Supportive, cohesive, and progressive environment#
Emphasis on providing timely, quality medical care
All Salaried GPs are provided with an internal GP mentor, and the opportunity for clinical supervision session

Supportive Environment

At Swan Medical Group, doctors benefit from a comprehensive support team, including:

Robust prescription management
Dedicated Meds Management team
Clinicians assisting reception in call triage
Allied Health Professionals, including pharmacists and FCP
Specialist Nurses managing Long-Term Health conditions
Healthcare Assistants supporting various clinical tasks
Data and digital team managing QOF recalls
Frailty Doctor supporting care home patients
Administrative support team, including medical secretaries and coders

Appointment Structure

Daily workload is managed by using a triage team. The triage team is responsible for directing patients to the most appropriate clinician or service, ensuring that GP’s only handle cases that specifically require their expertise. Additionally, all GP appointments are a minimum of 15 minutes. This structure is designed to optimise efficiency, reduce the burden on GP’s and improve patient care by matching patients with the appropriate level of clinical support.

Arrange a Visit

For those interested in learning more about this opportunity, please contact Kerry Ewen at kerry.ewen@nhs.net to arrange an informal visit.

Join Swan Medical Group and become part of a dynamic team dedicated to delivering high-quality, accessible healthcare to the community.

Contact Information

Email: kerry.ewen@nhs.net
Phone: 01730 232294
Organisation: Swan Medical Group
Location: Liphook, Hampshire

Trainee Dispenser/Prescription Clerk

Swan Medical Group has a new opportunity for a Trainee Dispenser/Prescription Clerk to compliment the team at our Dispensary and Medicine Management team in Liss, Hampshire

Hours: The role is available for part-time hours. Morning shifts start at 08:00 and afternoon shift finish at 18:30

Competitive salary: Starting Pay from £11.70, dependent on level of qualifications, experience

Essential: Excellent attention to detail

Desirable: Knowledge of medical terminology, Experience with a medical/pharmaceutical field

About Swan Medical Group

We are proud to have achieved an ‘Outstanding’ rating in our last CQC inspection. We aspire to be a local leader in delivering exceptional, integrated healthcare.

We are a supportive and forward-thinking practice with an excellent clinical team. We are a training practice for doctors and are supportive of personal development for all staff.

Duties include:

Medicine Management/Prescription Clerk

Regularly collect, check all prescriptions in accordance with the Practice’s Repeat Prescribing protocol, ensuring any queries are passed onto the Doctors as necessary, and deal with any phone queries or voicemail messages left on the prescriptions answering machine.
Ensure all prescriptions are up to date on a daily basis and where possible that all prescriptions received that day are processed by the end of that shift, and if not possible within a maximum of 3 working days as per protocol.
To deal with any emergency requests promptly and efficiently ensuring these are followed through and signed by the relevant Doctor.
To be responsible for distributing prescriptions to GPs for signing where required.
Have a sound understanding of basic medical terminology.
To accurately log all new deliveries of blank prescription books and monitor stock of allocated GP prescription books using the Prescription Log.
To identify when problems arise and alert the Senior/Manager.
Ensure all verbal and written requests are acted upon in a professional manner.
To maintain efficient administrative and clerical standards to ensure a professional outlook when dealing with patients via phone or face to face.
To answer and act upon phone queries and respond to online prescription requests.
Regularly check and collect prescription requests from reception and send requests to appropriate GP’s.
Check Medicine Management Workflow on EMIS and ensure that all prescriptions are sent to the correct GP. If GP absent, change to alternative GP in accordance with the ‘Buddy System’.
Ensure alerts are added to patient record when numerous urgent requests and send template letter if necessary.
Update patient’s medical record when correspondence is received from Hospitals or District Nurses these may including hospital letters, discharge summaries.
To be responsible for Claimable prescriptions

Trainee Dispenser

Take requests for, issue and dispense prescriptions, using Standard Operating Procedures
Carry out final check of dispensed medications once authorised to do so.
Hand out prescriptions and collect prescription charges or exemption declarations as appropriate.
Maintain stock levels of drugs, prescriptions and labels from sources indicated by the Dispensary Senior
Receive drug deliveries and check goods received against invoices and claim credits as required for shortages or errors.
Ensure the Controlled Drug Register is completed, and stock level checks are carried out as required
Comply with safeguarding training requirements as set out by the practice
Take prompt and timely action when there are any welfare or safeguarding concerns
Form appropriate relationships with those we care for and maintain professional boundaries
Work within organisational policies, protocols, and procedures
Demonstrate the organisations values and behaviors.

Benefits include: 5 weeks holiday plus Bank holidays (pro rata)

NHS Pensions scheme.

To Apply

Please forward your up-to-date CV and enclose a covering letter explaining your current situation and why this position would be right for you to:

Kerry.ewen@nhs.net & Shona.goodwin@nhs.net

Job description available upon request

Call Handler/Receptionist

Hours: Part time, to be discussed at interview.

Competitive salary: £11.70 per hour, reviewed after 6 months.

Swan Medical Group is expanding, and we are seeking friendly receptionists to join our team and work across our GP practices in Petersfield, Liphook and Liss in Hampshire.

If you are professional and personable and keen to provide outstanding service to our patient population then this could be the role for you.

You would be joining a friendly, supportive, and established team. Your duties would include working in our telephone hub, front of house receptions desks at all our surgeries, dealing with queries from patients and other administration tasks.

The ideal candidate would be a confident communicator with excellent customer service and administration skills and with previous experience in a public facing role.

Applicants need to be confident with new IT systems, comfortable learning new tasks and be a team player.

At times this can be a challenging role and so it is important that you can always remain calm and professional.

Core Hours: Monday to Friday between the hours of 08:00 – 18:45, part-time shifts would be within these core hours & to be discussed at interview. Some flexibility may be required to cover absences.

A full Job description is available on request.

DBS certification will be required

If you would like to apply for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to:

Kerry.ewen@nhs.net & shona.goodwin@nhs.net

Paramedic

Hours: Full time or Part time, to be discussed at interview.

Competitive salary: Range from £17.50 to £21 per hour, dependent on experience and level of qualifications

Essential: HCPC & A&E or urgent care experience required.

Swan Medical Group is proud to have achieved an ‘Outstanding’ rating in our recent CQC inspection. If you aspire to develop your career and work at an outstanding level, we would love to hear from you.

The Swan Medical Group consists of five GP surgeries. The Swan Surgery in Petersfield, Liphook Village Surgery, Liphook & Liss Surgeries & Riverside Surgery in Hampshire. We aspire to be a local leader in delivering exceptional integrated healthcare.

We have a new and exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician to join our established team of Nurse Practitioners and Paramedics. The post holder will work across all sites. The team provide acute minor illness care to patients and Home Visiting Service, aiming to prevent A&E visits and hospital admissions.

We are supportive and forward-thinking practice with an excellent clinical team. We are also a training practice for doctors and are supportive of personal development & ongoing training for all staff. We aim to provide our own succession planning.

Our Practitioners are supported to work independently, autonomously delivering care and treatment to patients within the clinical setting, having gained a wide range of knowledge and clinical skills in Primary Care. These skills will enable the post holder to provide the highest standard of care.

The successful candidate will undertake face to face clinical assessment and treatment of patients for minor illness, including undertaking telephone consultations and triage.

Applications are welcomed from experienced clinicians who have organisational skills and strong time management skills to ensure patients are seen in a timely way and that clinic run effectively, without compromising patient care or safety.

If you also have outstanding communication skills, good IT skills, are a team player with a forward thinking and innovative approach to work, we want to hear from you.

The following would be an advantage:

Triage skills
History taking & physical assessment degree module
Decision making and diagnostic module
Non-medical Independent Prescriber degree module

Job description available upon request

If you wish to apply, please send your CV and covering letter to shona.goodwin@nhs.net & Kerry.ewen@nhs.net

Administrator

Hours: Full or Part Time, hours to be discussed at interview.

Location: Petersfield, Liphook & Liss, Hampshire

Competitive salary: Starting salary £11.70 per hour

Desirable: Medical terminology/experience within a medical environment, Knowledge of the EMIS system

The Swan Medical Group consists of five GP surgeries. In Petersfield, Liphook, and Liss in Hampshire. We aspire to be a local leader in delivering exceptional integrated healthcare.

We have a new and exciting opportunity for an Administrator to join our established team undertaking duties including post duties, coding, iGPR and reports. This role will facilitate the flow of data through the Administration team and then onto clinicians. All duties are to be carried out within the Practice’s guidelines and policies.

The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills, the ability to multitask and be a strong team player whilst being able to prioritise own workload and work under pressure at times. You need to be willing to be flexible to cover staff shortages.

Job description available upon request.

DBS certificate will be required.

If you wish to apply, please send your CV and covering letter to shona.goodwin@nhs.net & Kerry.ewen@nhs.net

Clinical Pharmacist for Swan Medical Group

Hours: Part time – 16 hours per week.

Competitive salary: £42,000.00 to £47,000.00 per year dependent on level of qualification and experience

Required:

Must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Must have MPharm

The following would be an advantage:

Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Hold or be working towards an Independent Prescribing qualification
Clinical Diploma

We are proud to have achieved an ‘Outstanding’ rating in our last CQC inspection. We aspire to be a local leader in delivering exceptional, integrated healthcare.

We have a rare opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist aspiring to work at this outstanding level. The post holder will support all 5 practices, circa 38,000 patients, by providing expertise in clinical medicines management, working as part of Swan Medical Group’s Medicines Management Team.

The Clinical Pharmacist will provide face to face or remote structured medication reviews, review of patients with polypharmacy including those within residential care homes and those with multiple comorbidities. Additionally, the role will require them to manage long term conditions, medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, repeat prescription authorisation, and reauthorisation, as well as acute prescription requests. This is in line with the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practices.

The post holder will also provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within General Practice.

The Post holder will be supported to develop their role and become a non-medical prescriber if that qualification is not already held. Experience and a qualification as an Independent Prescriber may secure a salary at the higher end of our salary range.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Patient facing Long-term Condition Clinics
Domiciliary Clinical Medication Reviews
Patient facing Care Home medication Reviews
Risk stratification
Unplanned hospital admissions- review the use of medications
Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
Medicine information to practice staff and patients
Information management and analysis
Medicines quality improvement and safety
Education and Training to primary healthcare teams
Signposting

This list is not exhaustive

A full job description is available on request

A DBS check will be required

To Apply:

Please forward your CV, and cover letter, clearly explaining your suitability for the role to Kerry.ewen@nhs.net & shona.goodwin@nhs.net

Acute Care Nurse Practitioner & Independent Prescriber

Hours: Full time or Part time, to be discussed at interview.

Competitive salary: Ranges from £20 to £24 per hour, dependant on experience and level of qualifications

Essential: NMC Registered, A&E or urgent care experience required.

The successful candidate will undertake face to face clinical assessment and treatment of patients for minor illness, including undertaking telephone consultations and triage.

If you also have outstanding communication skills, good IT skills, are a team player with a forward thinking and innovative approach to work, we want to hear from you.

The following would be an advantage:

Triage skills
History taking & physical assessment degree module
Decision making and diagnostic module
Non-medical Independent Prescriber degree module

Job description available upon request

If you wish to apply, please send your CV and covering letter to shona.goodwin@nhs.net & Kerry.ewen@nhs.net

Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Hours: Full time or Part time, to be discussed at interview.

Competitive salary: Ranges from £16.50 to £19.50 per hour, dependant on experience and level of qualifications

Essential: NMC registered, A&E or urgent care experience required.

The successful candidate will understake face to face clinical assessment and treatment of patients for minor illness, including undertaking telephone consultations and triage.

If you also have outstanding communication skills, good IT skills, are a team player with a forward thinking and innovative approach to work, we want to hear from you.

The following would be an advantage:

Triage skills
History taking & physical assessment degree module
Decision making and diagnostic module
Non-medical Independent Prescriber degree module

Job description available upon request

If you wish to apply, please send your CV and covering letter to shona.goodwin@nhs.net & Kerry.ewen@nhs.net