Salaried GP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Title: Salaried General Practitioner

Reports to: The Partners (Clinically)

The Practice Manager (Administratively)

Job Summary

To 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

The post holder will undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, taking action on electronic prescription requests and dealing with prescription queries, paperwork and correspondence, including electronic correspondence, dealing with patient test results and medical reports, referral letters and any other correspondence as appropriate in a timely manner.

Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers.

Assess the health needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

Providing counselling and health education

Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, primarily by use of the computer system and complete the clinical system templates as appropriate

Collecting data for audit purposes

Prescribe in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary and agreed guidelines.

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 Practice

Awareness and compliance with all relevant policies/guidelines including, but not limited to prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, safeguarding, QOF and CQC

A commitment to lifelong learning and audit to ensure evidence based best practice

Contribute to the evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation

Contributing to the practice achievement of QOF and other performance targets

Attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate. This includes clinical and non-clinical training. Ensure that personal mandatory and organisationally required training is up to date.

Participate in practice meetings as required

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 health care 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.

Breach of confidentiality is gross misconduct and could lead to dismissal from the practice.

Health and Safety

The post holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice health & Safety Policy, to include:

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards

Reporting potential risks identified and Significant Events promptly

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 are met, the post holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, 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 other who are undertaking similar work.

Participate in such other individual performance reviews, revalidation or re-accreditation process as might be required by the CCG, GMC etc.

Quality

The post holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk and participate in significant event reviews

Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision

Contribute to the effectiveness of the tam 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 recognise 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 their own work

Participate in audit where appropriate

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC registration
• Be included in GP performer list and have a licence to practice
• Registered with a recognised medical defence organisation

Skills

Essential

• Clinical skills necessary for independent practice
• Sound knowledge of the principles and values that support good medical practice
• Good organisation skills
• Ability to work under pressure and manage a changing workload

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Will have excellent interpersonal skills and be committed to working as part of a team
• Will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Clear commitment to delivering quality and patient focused services
• Flexible, open to change and willing to learn new skills

Experience

Essential

• Recent work in General Practice
• IT literate including experience of using clinical systems, ideally Systmone

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

Blyth Road Medical Centre

Address

8 Blyth Road

Maltby

8 Blyth Road

South Yorkshire

S66 8JD

Employer's website

https://www.blythroadmedicalcentre.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)