Job responsibilities
Job Plan for Salaried GP
It is essential to the practice that each person has the right skills
for the role and has the ability to work as an effective person within our
team.
We regard ourselves as a friendly practice in which every member of
the team is important and receives due respect regardless of position.
It is our common aim to provide as efficient and professional service
to all our patients in a friendly manner in pleasant surroundings.
Duties and Responsibilities
The duties of the post are to provide a full range of general medical
services as contained within the National Health Services (Primary Care) Act
1997 and which will include domiciliary visits as deemed appropriate.
The post holder is expected to support the partners of Chingford Medical
Practice in providing all services outlined in the GMS Core Contract and also
in the aims and objectives of the Practice.
The post holder is expected to support and input into the aims of the
practice in areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes
framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any other
improvement plans as determined by the practice. Your performance in each area
will be monitored and referrals may be re-routed if appropriate.
The post holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of
computerised clinical records at all times. Full involvement in any practice
training and ongoing requirements of our status as a paperless practice is
expected.
The post holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of
paperwork.
1. Review of Plan
This appointment might be extended beyond 12 months but the period
beyond 12 months would be negotiable. The 1 year Job Plan will be reviewed
after 3, 6 and 9 months of employment, and will be developed collaboratively
between the employer and employee. After this time it will be subject to annual
review, or
when there are any significant changes to the work pattern suggested
by either party.
2. Scheduling in the Job Plan:
(a) Clinical duties: You are contracted to provide 4-5 clinical sessions each week which have been agreed for Wednesday and Friday between the hours of 8.30 am and 18.30 hours, but
these times may be varied if the practice is required by the CCG at any time to
deliver early or late sessions or weekend working.
(b) Provide face to face and telephone consultations. Be part of the on-call duty doctor system, dealing with urgent on-day queries until 6.30pm.
(c) Appointments are scheduled at 10 minute intervals and you will
provide face to face consultations in the morning and in the afternoon, clinics will be a mixture of telephone and face to face.
(d) You will be required to make home visits within the session time
specified.
(e) You will be expected to deal on a daily basis with telephone
queries from patients or other health care professionals in your administrative
time.
(f) You are expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence
related to your own allocated batch of patients and also those that you have
generated yourself;
(investigations and queries related to your consultations). In the case of sickness of another GP, their
workload will be shared amongst all GPs.
(g) Clinical duties will include seeing people with acute conditions,
ongoing chronic conditions which will also include reviews based on the QOF
3. Administration/paperwork:
(a) The Partners believe that the job plan allows sufficient time in
the job plan to complete all administrative duties related to your clinical
work, recognising the fact that all practitioners work at different rates.
(b) Referrals should be completed on a daily basis in line with practice
policy.
(c) Investigations and referrals should be completed and associated
documentation dealt with within appropriate timescales.
(d) Results are normally communicated electronically, you will be
expected to action these on a daily basis for your own patients. You will also
take a share in dealing with the daily post including correspondence addressed
to you and to take a share of the workload for absent Partners.
(e) Reports: You will be expected to complete examinations and reports
for the benefits agency and those expected under the PMS contract on patients
known to you. Additionally you may be expected to complete reports requested by
other parties such as insurance companies, OFSTED and employers.
(f) Computerised records: You will be expected to use appropriate
processes for computerised record keeping including computerised clinical
templates and protocols as well as ensuring that significant information as
determined by the practice is recorded accurately e.g. all QOF domains. You
will take part in reconciling information input periodically.
4. Primary care team meetings: formal or
informal, essential to the delivery of team based care are held from time to
time at the surgery and you will have a close working relationship with the
primary care team on a daily basis.
5. Practice Meeting and Personal Development
The practice is committed to the highest standards of evidence based
medicine and supporting colleagues in achieving this. You will be expected to
participate using your Personal Development Time, in discussions on clinical
practice standards, developing practice protocols, mutual professional support
for the individual practitioners, audit, significant event analysis, meetings
with colleagues in the ICB etc. Where these occur on an ad hoc basis,
adjustments to clinical workload may be required.
7. You will be expected to provide support for any
students or trainees in the practice when this has been approved by the
Partners.
8. You may be expected to become responsible for
particular areas of practice development.
9. You may be expected to be responsible for an area
of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).
10. Your time table is negotiable and will be agreed
upon your appointment.
11. Additional sessions: The Practice may agree with
a practitioner that he or she should undertake work which is not specified in
his or her Job Plan by way of additional nominal sessions or fractions thereof.
The extra session(s) shall be remunerated on a pro rata basis to a full-time
practitioners salary. Any such agreement shall be reviewed when required but
at least annually and will be terminable at three months notice on either
side.
12.
Leave entitlements: as per contract document