Job summary
Swallownest Health Centre is looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic GP to join our forward thinking, responsive and friendly team.
The role is required for 4 - 6 sessions per week. In return we can offer a competitive salary and we fully cover your indemnity cover and GMC.
We'll support newly qualified GP's with 'New to Practice' GP Fellowship Programme.
Main duties of the job
Swallownest Health Centre is a large, friendly, enthusiastic and supportive training practice caring for around 16,500 patients located in Rotherham, covering the areas of Aston, Aughton, Swallownest, Ulley, Fence and Todwick.
We are located 4 miles south of Rotherham and 7 miles from Sheffield, and are easily accessible (under 10 mins) from the M18 and M1/Sheffield Parkway.
The post-holder will deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for registered and temporary patients.
In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
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 and screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness. Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols.
About us
We pride ourselves on being able to offer a safe and enjoyable environment to practice in.
We enjoy our morning coffee break and lunch together, often with cake, which allows us to support each other, problem solve or simply chat about last nights TV!
With the changing face of General Practice and the increasing pressures, a good team, with a can do, forward thinking attitude is essential, and we have it by the bucket load. We genuinely care about our patients, staff and colleagues and our ethos reflects this. Don't take our word for it, come and see for yourself to see if we may be what you need for a really rewarding career.
We are proud to be working in association with our neighbouring practices (Dinnington, Kiveton and Thurcroft) and to have formed 'Rother Valley South Primary Care Network'.
We use TPP SystmOne and are high QOF achievers.
We like to 'think outside the box' in terms of digital optimisation to help support streamlining processes to reducing pressures on our teams. We have proactively trained our admin support teams in Care Navigation and Document Workflow and currently outsource Insurance and SAR's report requests.
We are proud to have worked and to continue to work with NHS England Time for Care programme on various modules for Quality Improvement, to enable us to deliver the best care that we can, especially during the current period of high demand.
Please contact Sarah Buckley on 0114 4333888 should you wish to arrange an informal visit.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary
The post-holder will
manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care
setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and
temporary patients.
Clinical
responsibilities
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as
agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a
variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone
consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing
repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence
in a timely fashion
- 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
- Developing care plans for health in consultation
with patients and in line with current practice disease management
protocols
- Providing counselling and health education
- Admitting or discharging patients to and from the
caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation
notes to agreed standards
- Collecting data for audit purposes
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute
and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever
possible)
- Prescribing in accordance with the practice
prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically
appropriate
- In general, the post-holder will be expected to
undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP
working within primary care.
Other responsibilities within the organisation:
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant
practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data
protection, health and safety
- A commitment to life-long learning and audit to
ensure evidence-based best practice
- Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical
standard setting within the organisation
- Contributing to the development of computer-based
patient records
- Contributing to the summarising of patient
records and read-coding patient data
- Attending training and events organised by the
practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
Confidentiality:
- In the course of
seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather,
sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the
right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act
appropriately
- In the
performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the
post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to
patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare
workers. They may also have access
to information relating to the practice as a business organisation.
All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly
confidential
- Information
relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the
business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in
accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to
confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & safety:
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and
management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as
defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health &
safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published
procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Using personal
security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Awareness of
national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory /
contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- Providing advice
on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including
collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers,
storage and transport arrangements
- Correct personal
use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE
by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians,
staff and patients.
- Management of
the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and
extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious
circumstances)
- Hand hygiene
standards for self and others
- Managing
directly all incidents of accidental exposure
- Management and
advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care
protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
- Active
observation of current working practices across the practice in relation
to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that
procedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified,
escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
- Identifying the
risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way
that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- Making effective
use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage
the training of others across the full range of infection control and
patient processes
- Monitoring
practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control,
ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc.,
and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working
environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the
responsible manager
- Safe management
of sharps use, storage and disposal
- Maintenance of own clean working environment
- Using
appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a
tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of
remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible
management
- Actively
identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and
infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work
areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying
issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the
business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general
standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where
appropriate) with responsible managers
- Undertaking
periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
- Correct waste
and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container
use
- Maintenance of
sterile environments
- Demonstrate
due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will
support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues,
to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of
peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with
practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and
beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of
the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances,
feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/professional development:
In addition to
maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study
days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP
are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented
by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance
review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own
personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development,
learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others
who are undertaking similar work.
Quality:
The post-holder will
strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and
risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability
for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by
reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to
improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other
agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and
resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the
importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate
effectively with other team members
- Communicate
effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise
peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the
policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary
The post-holder will
manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care
setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and
temporary patients.
Clinical
responsibilities
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as
agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a
variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone
consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing
repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence
in a timely fashion
- 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
- Developing care plans for health in consultation
with patients and in line with current practice disease management
protocols
- Providing counselling and health education
- Admitting or discharging patients to and from the
caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation
notes to agreed standards
- Collecting data for audit purposes
- Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute
and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever
possible)
- Prescribing in accordance with the practice
prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically
appropriate
- In general, the post-holder will be expected to
undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP
working within primary care.
Other responsibilities within the organisation:
- Awareness of and compliance with all relevant
practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data
protection, health and safety
- A commitment to life-long learning and audit to
ensure evidence-based best practice
- Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical
standard setting within the organisation
- Contributing to the development of computer-based
patient records
- Contributing to the summarising of patient
records and read-coding patient data
- Attending training and events organised by the
practice or other agencies, where appropriate.
Confidentiality:
- In the course of
seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather,
sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the
right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act
appropriately
- In the
performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the
post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to
patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare
workers. They may also have access
to information relating to the practice as a business organisation.
All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly
confidential
- Information
relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the
business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in
accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to
confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & safety:
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and
management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as
defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health &
safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published
procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
- Using personal
security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Awareness of
national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory /
contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- Providing advice
on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including
collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers,
storage and transport arrangements
- Correct personal
use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE
by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians,
staff and patients.
- Management of
the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and
extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious
circumstances)
- Hand hygiene
standards for self and others
- Managing
directly all incidents of accidental exposure
- Management and
advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care
protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
- Active
observation of current working practices across the practice in relation
to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that
procedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified,
escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
- Identifying the
risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way
that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
- Making effective
use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage
the training of others across the full range of infection control and
patient processes
- Monitoring
practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control,
ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc.,
and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working
environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the
responsible manager
- Safe management
of sharps use, storage and disposal
- Maintenance of own clean working environment
- Using
appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a
tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of
remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible
management
- Actively
identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and
infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work
areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying
issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the
business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general
standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where
appropriate) with responsible managers
- Undertaking
periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
- Correct waste
and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container
use
- Maintenance of
sterile environments
- Demonstrate
due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will
support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues,
to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of
peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with
practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and
beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of
the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances,
feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/professional development:
In addition to
maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study
days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP
are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented
by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:
- Participation in an annual individual performance
review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own
personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development,
learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others
who are undertaking similar work.
Quality:
The post-holder will
strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and
risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability
for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by
reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to
improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other
agencies to meet patients needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and
resources.
Communication:
The post-holder should recognize the
importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate
effectively with other team members
- Communicate
effectively with patients and carers
- Recognise
peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
Contribution to the implementation of services:
The post-holder will:
- Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the
policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003
- - Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983
- - Qualified General Practitioner (completed certificate of Completion of Training CCT)
- - Currently on a performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register
- - Enhanced DBS clearance
- - Have had an annual NHS appraisal
Desirable
- - Evidence of further postgraduate educational activities in relevant fields
- - MRCGP
- - DCH
- - DRCOG
- - RCGP Substance Misuse Certificate Level 1 or 2
- - F2 supervisor training/teaching diploma (this is essential for HDS)
- - DFSRFH & Competence in Coil insertion
- - Evidence of CPD activities
- - Evidence of Audits for Quality Improvement
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - A medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003
- - Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983
- - Qualified General Practitioner (completed certificate of Completion of Training CCT)
- - Currently on a performers list and not suspended from that list or from the medical register
- - Enhanced DBS clearance
- - Have had an annual NHS appraisal
Desirable
- - Evidence of further postgraduate educational activities in relevant fields
- - MRCGP
- - DCH
- - DRCOG
- - RCGP Substance Misuse Certificate Level 1 or 2
- - F2 supervisor training/teaching diploma (this is essential for HDS)
- - DFSRFH & Competence in Coil insertion
- - Evidence of CPD activities
- - Evidence of Audits for Quality Improvement
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).
Additional information
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).
