Company Name
The Derby Road Practice
All Locations
Ipswich
Advertising Salary
Competitive - DOE
Function
GP
Careers Site Advertising End Date
31 Aug 2025
Vacancy ID
28877

About the Role

Derby Road Practice are seeking an enthusiastic salaried GP witgh excellent interpersonal skills for 4 sessions per week however, this is negotiable for the right candidate. Flexibility is crucial to accommodate training, holidays and occasional sickness. 

We have an established team with a strong focus on customer service and on developing and nurturing staff in order to deliver excellent standards of patient care. We would love to hear from candidates with healthcare experience. We are also keen to hear from those that can show flexibility and a range of transferable skills.

The post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties including;

  • Surgery consultations, telephone/video consultations and queries.
  • Visiting patients at home, on call.
  • Checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries
  • All paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
  • Designated share of workflow and pathology reports.
  • 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.
  • Engaging with activities such as the QOF, LES/DES and other additional work essential for providing a full service for patients.

Please see job description attached for further information. 

About the Candidate

All applicants should have the following qualifications:
  •  
  • Essential:
  •  Fully qualified GP with GMC registration/MRCGP
  •  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 and guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety.
  •  Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
  •  Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner.

Desirable:
  • Experience with askmyGP & SystmOne. 

About Us

 

At The Derby Road Practice we pride ourselves in being a well-established, friendly, flexible, forward thinking primary care team, looking after over 18,700 patients.We are part of Suffolk Primary Care, which is a group of 7 GP practices across Suffolk. We have 2 sites, based in the heart of Ipswich, with close travel links to the beautiful Suffolk countryside and the Suffolk coast.

SPC is an innovative partnership with likeminded Suffolk GP surgeries covering 130,000 patients.  Doctors and practice staff share resources and work together to ensure patients continue to receive high quality healthcare.  Suffolk Primary Care is committed to a policy of equal opportunities in employment.

Benefits include;
 
  • NHS Pension scheme
  • Electric car salary sacrifice scheme 
  • Proper pay and cost of living benefits
  • Health service discounts
  • Eye care vouchers
  • Annual leave: minimum 33 days including bank holidays, FTE, with enhancements for long service
  • Enhanced maternity & paternity terms
  • High street discounts through our own online portal
  • Technology and homewares salary sacrifice schemes with Currys and John Lewis
  • Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
  • Gym salary sacrifice scheme
 

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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