Job summary
To join our friendly, innovative, expanding (currently 12,800 registered patients) and forward thinking Practice and to manage a busy and interesting clinical caseload. Our multi-skilled clinical team of GPs, ANPs, Nurses, Mental Health Practitioner, Clinical Pharmacist, Physician Associate etc., work together to provide high quality, accessible primary care services to our patient population together with the support of the complement of management and administration staff.
We currently additionally offer healthcare services to the Homeless, to local Mental Health Units and we are an accredited Clinical Research in primary care facility. We provide placements to ST & FY Drs, Student Nurses and iGPR (international GP) Drs in a supported and educational learning environment for the whole Practice team to engage with too
We are a Tier 2 Sponsor and able to accept applications from candidates who require this support.
Ideally required is a 4 session/2 day post-holder to work on Mondays and Fridays but the Practice is happy to discuss working patterns to suit the preferred candidate and the Practice
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be expected to undertake all the
normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary
care including surgery and telephone/video consultations and queries,
home visits, partaking in the Duty Dr rota (supported by a daily Duty ANP); patient and Practice administration (IT enabled and streamlined processes),
paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner. Making professional,
autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred
or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
About us
Our Practice is ratedOutstanding by CQC and we pride ourselves on continuing to enhance further and deliver excellence in primary care to our patient population.
Our focus and ethos is on providing high quality, accessible and friendly primary healthcare in a welcoming environment for all patients and staff
Our Practice is based close to Warrington town centre, and from two dual sites of the Medi Centre and Orford Park premises. The Medi Centre opened as a purpose built health centre in late 2016; our occupancy in Orford Park is part of a larger Health and Leisure facility which opened in 2012.
We are a multi-disciplinary team of 4 GPs, 3 ANPs, 4 Practice Nurses, 1 Clinical Research Nurse, 1 Mental Health Practitioner, 1 Physician Associate, 2 Clinical Pharmacists, 2 Health Care Assistants, 3 GP Assistants with a full complement of Management and Administrative personnel to support the clinical team and the patients. In addition we employ PCN ARRS personnel such as First Contact Physiotherapists, Mental Health Practitioner, Paramedics, Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, GP Assistant and Care-Coordinators
- We offer flexible working hours to suit the Practice and the individual.
- 6 weeks Annual Leave and 1 week of Study Leave
- We offer the NHS Pension Scheme to all staff
- All staff are included in a separate Healthshield Cash Plan
- Supported PDP including inhouse educational sessions as well as external events
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide Personal Medical Services
to acceptable clinical standards to patients, both in surgery and on home
visits.
- Respond to medical problems
presented by patients on the medical list, including history taking,
examination, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, referral where
appropriate and adequate documentation with READ coding onto the GP
Computer system.
- Provide appropriate health
promotion and preventative health care and advice to the Practice patients
attending the centre within the context of primary health care.
- Attend all team meetings and other
meetings as may be necessary for PMS duties.
- Carry out clinically related
administrative and non-clinical duties needed for the delivery of personal
medical services.
- Provide free certification in line
with Schedule 9 of NHS GMS Regulations (1992).
- Provide emergency cover for absent
colleagues from time to time as detailed.
- Maintain patients clinical records
in line with the electronic patient record system.
Duties within
Practice:
- You would be expected to perform
two surgeries of 2.5-3 hours duration in a day with combination of face to face and video/telephone appointments
- You would require to be available
to the Practice between the core hours of 08:00 to 18:30hrs.
- Triage home visits as required and
undertake the same
- Sign all relevant prescriptions and
deal with Patient and Practice correspondence on a daily basis.
- Deal with all clinical roles within
the Practice as undertaken by your clinical colleagues as required.
- Participation in the Practice
on-call (Duty Dr) arrangements
- Take responsibility of acquiring
the Practices QUOF, Enhanced Services and any other contractual targets
- Participate in the Extended Hours
scheme
Professional Practice
- Ensure services are provided to a
high quality and that they are of a consistent standard to meet the
identified needs of service users.
- Comply with all clinical governance
requirements as they relate to continuous improvement in quality and
organisational performance, including appraisal.
- Continually update personal
professional knowledge and competence by undergoing continuing
professional development and lifelong learning, and mentoring
- In collaboration with members of
the team cascade acquired knowledge, learning and expertise in order to
enhance skills and competencies of other clinicians.
Professional Leadership
- Identify best practice and
disseminate accordingly, for exampled through benchmarking, clinical
guidelines and research evidence.
- Develop new roles and responsibilities
when then need arises and reflect and respond to the demands of the
service.
- Liaise with relevant agencies and
the local community to promote knowledge and awareness of the services
provided
- Adopt a positive approach to change
and provide a clinical perspective on service development and
configuration issues. In addition,
generate proposals for the continuous development of the service.
Education Training and
Development
- As required provide supervision and
mentoring opportunities for staff together with the Practice Manager and
other Clinical staff.
- Develop new roles and
responsibilities when the need arises which reflect and respond to the
demands of the service.
- Identify ways of engaging service
users in service developments.
Develop strategies to meet objectives as they relate to the
services provided by the practice, together with the Principal and the
Practice Manager.
- Develop links with educational
providers so as to provide a learning environment.
Service Development Linked to
Research and Evaluation
- In collaboration with key
stakeholders participate in evaluation of the service through a process of
audit and research activity.
Participate in the production of regular performance monitoring
reports as required.
- Develop and implement policies and
procedures, clinical guidelines and protocols as required
- Develop and maintain effective
working relationships across the broad spectrum of health and social care
providers, service users and voluntary agencies.
- Utilising the latest evidence,
shape and organise services to reflect the needs of service users and in
response to local and national priorities and policy directives.
Human Resources
- Promote equality of opportunity in
accordance with the aims and objectives of the PMS Contractual Objectives
and NHS policy.
- To comply with Practice and NHS
policies and guidelines.
- to comply with the Practices
computer usage policy
Health and
Safety Responsibilities
- Provide safe and well-maintained
equipment. This provision must also
ensure that safe systems of work are in place.
- Make arrangements for the safe
handling, storage and transportation of any articles or substances that
are being used on the premises.
- Provide and distribute any relevant
information to all staff on
mattes affecting their Health and Safety, in addition, provide adequate
supervision and training for persons employed by the Practice.
- Maintain a safe place to work with
the provision for safe access to and from premises at all times.
General Duty
- No person shall intentionally or
recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interest of
health, Safety or Welfare.
This job
description is not exhaustive and will be subjective to amendments and changes
as required by the service in consultation with the post holder.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide Personal Medical Services
to acceptable clinical standards to patients, both in surgery and on home
visits.
- Respond to medical problems
presented by patients on the medical list, including history taking,
examination, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, referral where
appropriate and adequate documentation with READ coding onto the GP
Computer system.
- Provide appropriate health
promotion and preventative health care and advice to the Practice patients
attending the centre within the context of primary health care.
- Attend all team meetings and other
meetings as may be necessary for PMS duties.
- Carry out clinically related
administrative and non-clinical duties needed for the delivery of personal
medical services.
- Provide free certification in line
with Schedule 9 of NHS GMS Regulations (1992).
- Provide emergency cover for absent
colleagues from time to time as detailed.
- Maintain patients clinical records
in line with the electronic patient record system.
Duties within
Practice:
- You would be expected to perform
two surgeries of 2.5-3 hours duration in a day with combination of face to face and video/telephone appointments
- You would require to be available
to the Practice between the core hours of 08:00 to 18:30hrs.
- Triage home visits as required and
undertake the same
- Sign all relevant prescriptions and
deal with Patient and Practice correspondence on a daily basis.
- Deal with all clinical roles within
the Practice as undertaken by your clinical colleagues as required.
- Participation in the Practice
on-call (Duty Dr) arrangements
- Take responsibility of acquiring
the Practices QUOF, Enhanced Services and any other contractual targets
- Participate in the Extended Hours
scheme
Professional Practice
- Ensure services are provided to a
high quality and that they are of a consistent standard to meet the
identified needs of service users.
- Comply with all clinical governance
requirements as they relate to continuous improvement in quality and
organisational performance, including appraisal.
- Continually update personal
professional knowledge and competence by undergoing continuing
professional development and lifelong learning, and mentoring
- In collaboration with members of
the team cascade acquired knowledge, learning and expertise in order to
enhance skills and competencies of other clinicians.
Professional Leadership
- Identify best practice and
disseminate accordingly, for exampled through benchmarking, clinical
guidelines and research evidence.
- Develop new roles and responsibilities
when then need arises and reflect and respond to the demands of the
service.
- Liaise with relevant agencies and
the local community to promote knowledge and awareness of the services
provided
- Adopt a positive approach to change
and provide a clinical perspective on service development and
configuration issues. In addition,
generate proposals for the continuous development of the service.
Education Training and
Development
- As required provide supervision and
mentoring opportunities for staff together with the Practice Manager and
other Clinical staff.
- Develop new roles and
responsibilities when the need arises which reflect and respond to the
demands of the service.
- Identify ways of engaging service
users in service developments.
Develop strategies to meet objectives as they relate to the
services provided by the practice, together with the Principal and the
Practice Manager.
- Develop links with educational
providers so as to provide a learning environment.
Service Development Linked to
Research and Evaluation
- In collaboration with key
stakeholders participate in evaluation of the service through a process of
audit and research activity.
Participate in the production of regular performance monitoring
reports as required.
- Develop and implement policies and
procedures, clinical guidelines and protocols as required
- Develop and maintain effective
working relationships across the broad spectrum of health and social care
providers, service users and voluntary agencies.
- Utilising the latest evidence,
shape and organise services to reflect the needs of service users and in
response to local and national priorities and policy directives.
Human Resources
- Promote equality of opportunity in
accordance with the aims and objectives of the PMS Contractual Objectives
and NHS policy.
- To comply with Practice and NHS
policies and guidelines.
- to comply with the Practices
computer usage policy
Health and
Safety Responsibilities
- Provide safe and well-maintained
equipment. This provision must also
ensure that safe systems of work are in place.
- Make arrangements for the safe
handling, storage and transportation of any articles or substances that
are being used on the premises.
- Provide and distribute any relevant
information to all staff on
mattes affecting their Health and Safety, in addition, provide adequate
supervision and training for persons employed by the Practice.
- Maintain a safe place to work with
the provision for safe access to and from premises at all times.
General Duty
- No person shall intentionally or
recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interest of
health, Safety or Welfare.
This job
description is not exhaustive and will be subjective to amendments and changes
as required by the service in consultation with the post holder.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- MRCGP
- Interested in GP Training
Experience
Essential
- GP Practice working experience
- Primary care experience
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- MRCGP
- Interested in GP Training
Experience
Essential
- GP Practice working experience
- Primary care experience
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
