SALARIED GENERAL PRACTITIONER

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Provide Personal Medical Services to acceptable clinical standards to patients, both in surgery and on home visits.
2. Respond to medical problems presented by patients on the medical list, including history taking, examination, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, referral where appropriate and adequate documentation with READ coding onto the GP Computer system.
3. Provide appropriate health promotion and preventative health care and advice to the Practice patients attending the centre within the context of primary health care.
4. Attend all team meetings and other meetings as may be necessary for PMS duties.
5. Carry out clinically related administrative and non-clinical duties needed for the delivery of personal medical services.
6. Provide free certification in line with Schedule 9 of NHS GMS Regulations (1992).
7. Provide emergency cover for absent colleagues from time to time as detailed.
8. Maintain patients clinical records in line with the electronic patient record system.

Duties within Practice:

1. You would be expected to perform two surgeries of 2.5-3 hours duration in a day with appointments of 10 minutes duration.
2. You would require to be available to the Practice between the hours of 08:00 to 18:30hrs.
3. Triage home visits as required and undertake the same
4. Sign all relevant prescriptions and deal with Patient and Practice correspondence on a daily basis.
5. Deal with all clinical roles within the Practice as undertaken by your clinical colleagues as required.
6. Participation in the Practice on-call (Duty Dr) arrangements
7. Take responsibility of acquiring the Practices QUOF, Enhanced Service and any other contractual targets
8. Participate in the Extended Hours scheme

Professional Practice

1. Ensure services are provided to a high quality and that they are of a consistent standard to meet the identified needs of service users.
2. Comply with all clinical governance requirements as they relate to continuous improvement in quality and organisational performance, including appraisal.
3. Continually update personal professional knowledge and competence by undergoing continuing professional development and lifelong learning, and mentoring
4. In collaboration with members of the team cascade acquired knowledge, learning and expertise in order to enhance skills and competencies of other clinicians.

Professional Leadership

1. Identify best practice and disseminate accordingly, for exampled through benchmarking, clinical guidelines and research evidence.
2. Develop new roles and responsibilities when then need arises and reflect and respond to the demands of the service.
3. Liaise with relevant agencies and the local community to promote knowledge and awareness of the services provided
4. Adopt a positive approach to change and provide a clinical perspective on service development and configuration issues. In addition, generate proposals for the continuous development of the service.

Education Training and Development

1. As required provide supervision and mentoring opportunities for staff together with the Practice Manager and other clinical staff.
2. Develop new roles and responsibilities when the need arises which reflect and respond to the demands of the service.
3. Identify ways of engaging service users in service developments. Develop strategies to meet objectives as they relate to the services provided by the practice, together with the Principal and the Practice Manager.
4. Develop links with educational providers so as to provide a learning environment.

Service Development Linked to Research and Evaluation

1. In collaboration with key stakeholders participate in evaluation of the service through a process of audit and research activity. Participate in the production of regular performance monitoring reports as required.
2. Develop and implement policies and procedures, clinical guidelines and protocols as required
3. Develop and maintain effective working relationships across the broad spectrum of health and social care providers, service users and voluntary agencies.
4. Utilising the latest evidence, shape and organise services to reflect the needs of service users and in response to local and national priorities and policy directives.

Human Resources

1. Promote equality of opportunity in accordance with the aims and objectives of the PMS Contractual Objectives and NHS policy.
2. To comply with Practice and NHS policies and guidelines.
3. to comply with the Practices computer usage policy

Health and Safety Responsibilities (together with the Services Manager)

1. Provide safe and well-maintained equipment. This provision must also ensure that safe systems of work are in place.
2. Make arrangements for the safe handling, storage and transportation of any articles or substances that are being used on the premises.
3. Provide and distribute any relevant information to all staff on mattes affecting their Health and Safety, in addition, provide adequate supervision and training for persons employed by the Practice.
4. Maintain a safe place to work with the provision for safe access to and from premises at all times.

General Duty

1. No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interest of health, Safety or Welfare.

This job description is not exhaustive and will be subjective to amendments and changes as required by the service in consultation with the post holder.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GP Registration

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Woodbank Surgery

Address

Woodbank Surgery

2 Hunstanton Drive

Brandlesholme, Bury

Lancashire

BL8 1EG

Employer's website

https://www.woodbanksurgery.nhs.uk/index.aspx (Opens in a new tab)