Salaried GP, London W12

H&F Partnership

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Job summary

We are recruiting for a salaried GP at the Bush Doctors site of Hammersmith and Fulham Partnership. The Bush Doctors has an established team of 5 partners and we are looking to build on our existing team of 3 salaried GPs to deliver excellent care to our practice population in Shepherd's Bush. We have a practice population of 12,000 patients and the work is interesting and hugely rewarding.

We believe in a supportive environment and close teamwork, with excellent informal communication and weekly clinical meetings. We are flexible on session times andallocate time for administration. We have worked hard to reduce traditional GP bureaucracy. Our in-house pharmacy team manage our prescribing and most of QOF chronic disease management. We have a workflow team to manage and code documents/correspondence. We have a practice secretary to help manage all our referrals. We have a partnership quality and contracts team to help ensure GPs focus their time on the clinically important areas.

Main duties of the job

You may be a new GP looking for a salaried role in a supportive environment or an established GP ready to step up to more responsibilities potentially with a view to partnership. Time commitment is a minimum of 2 days per week but beyond that its about you, what you bring, and your values. The annual salary is £11,077 per session.

About us

The Bush Doctors is part of the HFP PCN which is made up of 5 local sites in the centre of Hammersmith & Fulham, totalling 70,000 patients. The surgeries, Park Medical Centre, North End Medical Centre, Brook Green Medical Centre, The Bush Doctors, and Richford Gate Medical Practice run individual lists with cross site working in areas such as 'patches' for online consultations.

We have a central management team. Our structure increases resilience and means we have the breadth and scale to respond and adapt to change promptly and effectively. We have worked with our local GP and hospital colleagues to set up 'faculty' working in key clinical areas with the most complexity.

There is a strong culture of learning and development, and all sites are training practices. In addition, several of the partners are involved in wider healthcare roles locally. We have an active education programme with all clinicians invited to attend a quarterly half day session based around our faculties. We also have an active social programme with subsidised partnership based 5 aside football, bouldering, summer rounders, choir and biannual parties.

The partnership sites had CQC inspections last year and achieved good overall with outstanding for leadership for all 5 sites. We are strong believers in career development and the GP partnership model in the last 5 years we have recruited 13 new GP partners 10 from within our salaried workforce, many of whom started their training with us.

Date posted

04 October 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11,077 a session

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

A3071-23-0000

Job locations

The Bush Doctors

Shepherds Bush Green

London

W12 8PP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties include diagnosing and treating a wide range of medical conditions, providing preventive care through, managing chronic disease, and offering health education and counselling to patients and maintain thorough medical records. We work on 15-minute appointments per patient and ensure we encourage our GPs to develop a specialty of interest. We believe in delivering compassionate, patient-centered care.

In accordance with the Practice timetable, 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, reports 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 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 and complying with QOF requirements.

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

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.