Job summary
We are looking for a salaried Doctor to do 4 to 9 sessions per week (negotiable), to join our dynamic and growing team. The role will include routine surgeries, visits and duty doctor sessions. We are a forward looking practice and committed to caring for our workforce, to make a more sustainable future we are currently our working days have moved 15 minute appointments.
We are offering:
Friendly and team
Daily coffee meetings with clinical team
Weekly practice meetings
Tea, coffee and biscuits
6 weeks annual leave plus 1 week study leave
Dedicated admin time
15 minute appointments for most patient contact
Opportunity to develop skills and special interests
Training practice for GPST and medical students
Competitive salary
NHS Pension
Day duty shifts
EMIS Web
Nurse-led chronic disease clinics
PCP/ANP Clinic for Minor Illness
High QOF achieving practice
Biannual social events for the whole team
Please note we have also applied for a licence to become a Skilled Worker Visa Sponsor organisation.
Main duties of the job
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.
We currently offer a blend of both telephone, face-to-face and video appointments.
Please see attached Job Description for more information.
About us
Clifton Road Surgery is situated within the centre
of Rugby. Rugby is a thriving town with great schools, houses and
transport links to London and the Midlands. We are a large high achieving
practice responsible for approximately 15,000 patients. Our team consists
of 5 Partner GPs, 3 salaried GPs, primary care practitioners, practice nurses,
HCAs, plus a full team of admin support. We are part of Rugby Health PCN with
ARRS staff embedded in practice. We are also an established training practice
for GPST and have a strong training and mentoring ethos at the practice. We are a high QOF achieving practice and have
a good reputation within Rugby.
We pride ourselves on
offering a high standard of patient centred care to our community despite the
challenges primary care currently faces.
However, we also appreciate the need to manage work-load, maintain a
good work life balance and support our team.
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/Job Plan, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self
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
- In consultation with patients and
in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing
care plans for health
- Providing 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.
- Ensuring all the Practices
mandatory training is undertaken within the given timescale.
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 assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others
health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety
Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems
within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in
work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages
those risks
- Making effective use of training
to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection
control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free
from hazards
- Reporting potential risks
identified.
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 recognizes
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, 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
- Recognize 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 Plan:
- Set sessions per week with visits. Morning session to start between 0810-
0840 and afternoon sessions to start between 1430 and 1530, ensuring the
later time on at least one day.
- A session currently consists of 15 x 10 min
appointments plus required administration time. However, please note appointment times
are being reviewed for a more sustainable future.
- Visits to be carried out on an
equitable basis with all the GPs who are working the AM session on that
particular day.
- To be included on the Duty Doctor
Rota which involves cover 0800 1830hrs (core 0830 1800hrs with phone
reference availability), with late afternoon visits up to 1900hrs.
- Be allocated your own patient list
and therefore recorded as their named GP; on an equitable basis with all
the GPs.
- Medical reports/letters will be
undertaken for your own/known patients and dedicated allocated admin time
will be given for this.
- Referrals will be actioned at time
of consultation using the e-referral system. Referral letters are then dictated for
the Medical Secretary to attach and forward via the e-referral system, if
appropriate, within 3 days of the consultation with our patient.
- Results will be reviewed and
actioned accordingly, using the CRRS link where appropriate.
- DocMan training will be given and
is used in line with the promotion of a paperless environment, with work
queues actively managed within a reasonable timescale.
- Prescriptions are issued under
your own name.
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/Job Plan, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self
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
- In consultation with patients and
in line with current practice disease management protocols, developing
care plans for health
- Providing 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.
- Ensuring all the Practices
mandatory training is undertaken within the given timescale.
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 assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others
health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety
Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems
within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in
work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages
those risks
- Making effective use of training
to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection
control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free
from hazards
- Reporting potential risks
identified.
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 recognizes
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, 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
- Recognize 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 Plan:
- Set sessions per week with visits. Morning session to start between 0810-
0840 and afternoon sessions to start between 1430 and 1530, ensuring the
later time on at least one day.
- A session currently consists of 15 x 10 min
appointments plus required administration time. However, please note appointment times
are being reviewed for a more sustainable future.
- Visits to be carried out on an
equitable basis with all the GPs who are working the AM session on that
particular day.
- To be included on the Duty Doctor
Rota which involves cover 0800 1830hrs (core 0830 1800hrs with phone
reference availability), with late afternoon visits up to 1900hrs.
- Be allocated your own patient list
and therefore recorded as their named GP; on an equitable basis with all
the GPs.
- Medical reports/letters will be
undertaken for your own/known patients and dedicated allocated admin time
will be given for this.
- Referrals will be actioned at time
of consultation using the e-referral system. Referral letters are then dictated for
the Medical Secretary to attach and forward via the e-referral system, if
appropriate, within 3 days of the consultation with our patient.
- Results will be reviewed and
actioned accordingly, using the CRRS link where appropriate.
- DocMan training will be given and
is used in line with the promotion of a paperless environment, with work
queues actively managed within a reasonable timescale.
- Prescriptions are issued under
your own name.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Must have MRCGP Qualification and on Performers list
- Current GMC registration
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Must have MRCGP Qualification and on Performers list
- Current GMC registration
Desirable
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).