Job summary
The post holder will demonstrate: critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process, work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures, and provide leadership to the extended primary care team.
An understanding of SystmOne and Accurx would be advantageous but not essential as training can be provided.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Practice
Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.
Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.
Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, for example trainee advanced nurse practitioners and the personalised care roles.
About us
We are a busy GP Practice, located in North Yorkshire.Our Patient list size is of around 1700 patients currently. We have a team of 3 GPs, 3 Nurses, 1HCA and 4 admin.
Details
Date posted
14 May 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience In line with GP salary banding
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
A2024-25-0006
Job locations
Carlton Road
Helmsley
York
YO62 5HD
Job description
Job responsibilities
Helmsley Medical Centre is located in the small, picturesque market town of Helmsley in North Yorkshire. With a patient population of approximately 3,600, we are a small family-orientated rural practice. Run by two partners, across Helmsley Surgery and Terrington Surgery we have a team of salaried GPs, practice nurses (including a prescribing nurse practitioner) and HCAs as well as a full complement of support staff. We are also an active member of the award winning SHaR PCN and benefit from, not only a PCN run urgent care service but also first contact physios, mental health workers, clinicalpharmacists, SPLWs, care co-ordinators and OTs. As a training practice for Hull and York Medical School, there is the opportunity to teach medical students, and we have recently been nominated for best practice and best tutor awards from our most recent cohort of students. There are CPD opportunities, particularly if you wish to develop a personal interest. We are also a dispensing practice. In addition to clinically diagnosing and treating patients with both acute and long-term conditions, you will be required to undertake indirect clinical tasks such as prescribing, referrals, and managing online consultations. Non-clinical responsibilities include attending meetings, completing paperwork, and engaging in professional development. We are high QOF achievers and were rated good in the last CQC inspection. An understanding of SystmOne and Accurx would be advantageous but not essential as training can be provided.
If the above appeals to you, and you are a GP looking to join a conscientious, friendly team, with a view to becoming a partner in time, then we would welcome your application.
Clinical Practice
Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.
Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.
Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, for example trainee advanced nurse practitioners and the personalised care roles. Communication
Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
Communicate with and support patients who are receiving bad news.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers and anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
Maintain effective communication within the urgent care service and with GP practices and external stakeholders. Delivering a Quality Service
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 including utilising an audit cycle.
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the GMC. Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
Prioritise, organise and manage own time and workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
Participate in significant events meetings to manage, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events. Leadership Personal and People Development
Take responsibility for own learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model. Team Working
Understand own role and scope and identify how this may develop over time.
Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.
Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence.
Discuss, highlight and work with the team to create opportunities to improve patient care.
Manage and lead on the delivery of specifically identified services or projects as agreed with the practice management team. Management of Risk
Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.
Apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines. Managing Information
Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information.
Review and process data using accurate Read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes. Learning and Development
The post holder will participate in any training 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 your own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Undertake mentorship for more junior staff, assessing competence against set standards.
Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (eg courses and conferences). Safeguarding
Comply with safeguarding training requirements as set out by employment terms and any relevant professional and national bodies.
Take prompt and timely action when there are any welfare or safeguarding concerns.
Form appropriate relationships with those you care for and maintain professional boundaries in your work.
Work within organisational policies, procedures and guidance.
Commit to demonstrating the organisation's values and behaviours in your work
Confidentiality
The post holder will maintain the security of sensitive personal and other confidential information and will apply all relevant Information Governance policies reliably to working practice. Additionally, they will be expected to follow secure operating procedures for handling information in all formats, including verbal, written and that held electronically.
While 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. They may also have access to information relating to the individual practices. 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 practices may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the host practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data. Health and Safety The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the host practice Health and Safety Policy, to include:
Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintain work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
Promptly report any potential risks identified.
Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines. 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 host 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-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Helmsley Medical Centre is located in the small, picturesque market town of Helmsley in North Yorkshire. With a patient population of approximately 3,600, we are a small family-orientated rural practice. Run by two partners, across Helmsley Surgery and Terrington Surgery we have a team of salaried GPs, practice nurses (including a prescribing nurse practitioner) and HCAs as well as a full complement of support staff. We are also an active member of the award winning SHaR PCN and benefit from, not only a PCN run urgent care service but also first contact physios, mental health workers, clinicalpharmacists, SPLWs, care co-ordinators and OTs. As a training practice for Hull and York Medical School, there is the opportunity to teach medical students, and we have recently been nominated for best practice and best tutor awards from our most recent cohort of students. There are CPD opportunities, particularly if you wish to develop a personal interest. We are also a dispensing practice. In addition to clinically diagnosing and treating patients with both acute and long-term conditions, you will be required to undertake indirect clinical tasks such as prescribing, referrals, and managing online consultations. Non-clinical responsibilities include attending meetings, completing paperwork, and engaging in professional development. We are high QOF achievers and were rated good in the last CQC inspection. An understanding of SystmOne and Accurx would be advantageous but not essential as training can be provided.
If the above appeals to you, and you are a GP looking to join a conscientious, friendly team, with a view to becoming a partner in time, then we would welcome your application.
Clinical Practice
Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.
Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.
Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, for example trainee advanced nurse practitioners and the personalised care roles. Communication
Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
Communicate with and support patients who are receiving bad news.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers and anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
Maintain effective communication within the urgent care service and with GP practices and external stakeholders. Delivering a Quality Service
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 including utilising an audit cycle.
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the GMC. Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
Prioritise, organise and manage own time and workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
Participate in significant events meetings to manage, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events. Leadership Personal and People Development
Take responsibility for own learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model. Team Working
Understand own role and scope and identify how this may develop over time.
Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.
Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence.
Discuss, highlight and work with the team to create opportunities to improve patient care.
Manage and lead on the delivery of specifically identified services or projects as agreed with the practice management team. Management of Risk
Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.
Apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines. Managing Information
Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information.
Review and process data using accurate Read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes. Learning and Development
The post holder will participate in any training 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 your own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Undertake mentorship for more junior staff, assessing competence against set standards.
Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (eg courses and conferences). Safeguarding
Comply with safeguarding training requirements as set out by employment terms and any relevant professional and national bodies.
Take prompt and timely action when there are any welfare or safeguarding concerns.
Form appropriate relationships with those you care for and maintain professional boundaries in your work.
Work within organisational policies, procedures and guidance.
Commit to demonstrating the organisation's values and behaviours in your work
Confidentiality
The post holder will maintain the security of sensitive personal and other confidential information and will apply all relevant Information Governance policies reliably to working practice. Additionally, they will be expected to follow secure operating procedures for handling information in all formats, including verbal, written and that held electronically.
While 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. They may also have access to information relating to the individual practices. 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 practices may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the host practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data. Health and Safety The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the host practice Health and Safety Policy, to include:
Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintain work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
Promptly report any potential risks identified.
Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines. 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 host 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-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Eligible to work in General Practice in the NHS
- To deal with sensitive information in a tactful way.
- To be able to demonstrate on-going personal and practice development.
- To have a facilitative approach.
- To discuss difficult areas sensitively and diplomatically.
- Excellent communication skills including verbal, written, face to face and active listening skills.
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
- Computer skills familiar with the GP based software, Microsoft Word and e-mail
Experience
Essential
- Qualified and registered GP
Desirable
- Understanding of SystmOne and Accurx
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Eligible to work in General Practice in the NHS
- To deal with sensitive information in a tactful way.
- To be able to demonstrate on-going personal and practice development.
- To have a facilitative approach.
- To discuss difficult areas sensitively and diplomatically.
- Excellent communication skills including verbal, written, face to face and active listening skills.
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
- Computer skills familiar with the GP based software, Microsoft Word and e-mail
Experience
Essential
- Qualified and registered GP
Desirable
- Understanding of SystmOne and Accurx
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Helmsley Medical Centre
Address
Carlton Road
Helmsley
York
YO62 5HD
Employer's website
https://www.helmsleymedicalcentre.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Helmsley Medical Centre
Address
Carlton Road
Helmsley
York
YO62 5HD
Employer's website
https://www.helmsleymedicalcentre.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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Details
Date posted
14 May 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience In line with GP salary banding
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
A2024-25-0006
Job locations
Carlton Road
Helmsley
York
YO62 5HD
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