Job summary
Salaried GP Training Practice Opportunity:£10619.33/clinical session/annum + Medical Indemnity
We are looking to appoint a Salaried GP for up to 4 sessions(Thursday & Fridays only )at our split-site Training practice in the Black Country. We are involved in RCGP Faculty activity and medical education at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We have a long history of training Final Year medical students & GP trainees. The post would encourage any candidate with an interest in medical education to work alongside our experienced GPs including our GP trainer and TPD for City VTS Dr Jamie Hynes & our Mentor for medical students Dr Nicola Dutton however this is not essential, our priority is to develop you as an individual.
Our GP sessions involve 16 contacts am and 12 contacts pm. These are a mixture of telephone/face to face . Some are pre-bookable and some are same day bookings only. We have a duty afternoon of 13 contacts (this is considered maximum capacity) and these afternoons are shared between all our GP's.
We have 2 Pharmacists attached to the Practice through our PCN who help with acute prescriptions and tasks 4 days a week.
We also use Arden's software for templates and help in streamlining GP administration duties and referrals.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
- 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
- Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
- 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
- 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.
About us
We have an established team of 8 doctors, 2 trainees,1 ANP, 3 Practice Nurses, 2 Pharmacists and a HCA, 10 of which have worked at the practice for over 5 years, (most have been with us for over 10 years). We value the low turnover of staff we have achieved which gains the rewards continuity of roles brings in understanding our 11,400+ patients and their families at our high-QOF achieving practice.
We are a mixed team of experienced, long standing staff and newly qualified members and we believe in supporting and developing all our staff to achieve what they want out of their career.
Please take the time to come and meet us and see for yourself.
Feel free to contact our Practice Manager Hannah Clarke for an informal chat about the practice and to get a feel for the friendly supportive team culture we thrive on.
Many thanks for your interest.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
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.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 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 CCG performers list and not suspended from
- that list or from the medical register
- DBS clearance
- Have had an annual NHS appraisal
Desirable
- Evidence of further postgraduate educational
- activities in relevant fields
- MRCGP
- DCH
- DRCOG
- DFSRFH & Competence in Coil insertion
- Evidence of CPD activities
- CV/AF/IN
- Experience Recent experience of working in general practice in the UK
- Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary and skill mixed team environment
- Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality
- and Outcome Framework (QOF)
- Evidence of independent working in General
- Practice
- Experience of supporting service change
- Evidence of participation in QOF
- Evidence of participation in Audit
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 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 CCG performers list and not suspended from
- that list or from the medical register
- DBS clearance
- Have had an annual NHS appraisal
Desirable
- Evidence of further postgraduate educational
- activities in relevant fields
- MRCGP
- DCH
- DRCOG
- DFSRFH & Competence in Coil insertion
- Evidence of CPD activities
- CV/AF/IN
- Experience Recent experience of working in general practice in the UK
- Commitment to and experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary and skill mixed team environment
- Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality
- and Outcome Framework (QOF)
- Evidence of independent working in General
- Practice
- Experience of supporting service change
- Evidence of participation in QOF
- Evidence of participation in Audit
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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).