Job responsibilities
SALARIED
GP JOB PLAN
Clinical Duties
Clinical
duties involve seeing patients either face-to-face or managing them through
Telephone Consultations.
There
are different types of sessions which include
1.
Face-to-face
clinic
2.
Visiting
doctor
3.
Duty
doctor
4.
Navigation
doctor
5.
Non-GMS
doctor
6. Enhanced Access doctor
Each
Face-to-face session comprises:
10
appointments of 15 minutes duration with catch-up slots after every 3
appointments.
4 Follow-up telephone calls which are
blocked this is for you to call back any patients you need to follow-up.
Occasionally if you have seen a patient and ordered a blood test, if you had
not booked follow-up and another clinician has seen the test result and feels
they need to follow-up with you as you had originally seen them, then the call
will be booked into this slot. New work should not find its way into this slot
and you will be asked to pass this back to Reception if this happens.
2
sick note slots.
The
red emergency blocked slots are protected for Reception or duty team to use. If
you need to bring back a patient urgently, please discuss with Duty or
Navigation doctor on the day.
Please
feel free to book any follow-ups into the purple routine slots but be mindful
that we are setting routine appointments at 5-6 weeks we ask that clinicians
also get patients to wait 5-6 weeks if the problem that you are bringing them
back for is non-urgent.
Start
times at 09:30 is possible for doctors who have a school run to do but there
will be fewer catch-ups.
You
could be doing these sessions at either Aspen Centre, Saintbridge Surgery or
Tuffley Surgery. Tuffley Surgery is only open on Mondays and Thursdays with
only routine appointments.
Duty
and Navigation doctor sessions
Duty
Doctor, Navigation Doctor and Visiting Doctor all sit together in the Duty Hub
next to Reception.
The
job involves, triaging all home visit requests, supporting Reception with
navigating patients to the most appropriate clinician, signing off
prescriptions, supporting Allied Health Professionals and Trainees with
clinical queries, speaking to Paramedics/District Nurses etc.
There
are no booked patients to see when doing Duty or Navigation doctor duties.
Sitting
together makes the day much more enjoyable allowing exchange of information and
discussion.
Visiting
doctor session
comprises:
Visiting
patients only and all visits are triaged by the Duty Doctor.
2
sick note slots.
4
Follow-up telephone calls which are blocked this is for you to call back any
patients you need to follow-up. Occasionally if you have seen a patient and
ordered a blood test, if you had not booked follow-up and another clinician has
seen the test result and feels they need to follow-up with you as you had
originally seen them, then the call will be booked into this slot. New work
should not find its way into this slot and you will be asked to pass this back
to Reception if this happens.
If
you have not visits, we hope you will help Duty and Navigation doctor sign off
the electronic prescriptions or you may wish to triage your own visits when you
are not out on the road.
Non-GMS
session comprises of
visiting Great Western Court (reablement unit) and Charlton Lane (Old Age
Psychiatry hospital) to provide GP services. Each day we have one doctor
assigned to cover this and you will not have any other appointments in this
session.
Enhanced
Access session is
really a later session starting from about 4pm and finishing at 8pm.
Each
day a doctor is assigned to do EA and will start their morning clinic at 10am
(ie you will work from 10am to 8pm instead of 8:30am to 6:30pm).
o
To
recognise the clinician for the unsociable hours, you will receive £100 per EA
session that you do on top of normal pay.
Surgery times and session length
Morning
sessions generally start at 8:30am and should finish by 1:00pm for lunch.
Afternoon
sessions generally start at 2:00pm and should finish by 6:30pm.
These
are very busy times but we value everyone getting away on time.
Locum sessions
If
you are interested in locum sessions, please let the Appointment Book team know
(Amy Cheape and Debbie Bateman) you will then be copied into emails when we
have dates needing locum cover.
Annual Appraisal
Every
doctor is given a session out for their annual appraisal please let the
Appointment Book team know at least 7 weeks in advance when you are deciding on
your appraisal date.
Administration
Your
main admin is generated from seeing patients referrals, results etc.
Docman
is minimal and most clinicians will have no more than 4 to 5 documents per day.
Results
from investigations you order. On your non-working days and when you are on
leave, Admin team at 9:00am each morning will clear your results inbox and
share it out to all available working clinicians that day. Therefore, on your
normal working day, you would expect to get a share of other colleagues
results who are not in that day.
Reports
are centralised and done by our Admin manager therefore you are not given
reports to do.
If
you have been involved with a child/family who require a Safeguarding report,
the report will be prepared by Admin team who will add this to your list to
check and send you an email to let you know. Once you have checked the standard
report they have prepared it and are happy, then you email them back to let
them know that it is fine to send off.
Electronic
prescriptions are signed off by Duty, Navigation and Visiting doctors.
Tasks,
Results, Documents and emails should be checked on your working days.
Team meetings
There
are monthly Protected Learning Time meetings between 1:00-3:30pm on alternating
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. These are educational sessions with both
internal and external speakers arranged. Significant events are also discussed
at these sessions. Learning bulletins are generated monthly to share learning.
There
are also monthly Safeguarding and Palliative/Frailty meetings that take place
if you are interested in coming to those.
Special interests
If
you have a special interest in a particular area and you are keen to develop
this further please do not hesitate to have a discussion with Dr Hasib
Khalid. We are keen to support personal development if we can and there are
certainly more opportunities in a large practice like this.
However,
if you are enjoying just being a GP, good on you as well because doing this
job alone is challenging enough. You do not have to have a special interest to
be a valued member of the Aspen team.
Mentoring and support
Dr
Hasib Khalid is the nominated partner looking after salaried GPs.
But
please feel free to approach any partner you feel most comfortable with for
regular ongoing mentoring and support.
New
joiners may feel happier with regular meetings with their chosen mentor we do
not wish to impose anything but would be very happy to have regular meetings
and indeed that may be advisable for at least the first few months.
