Job summary
We are looking for a GP for 12 months Maternity Leave Cover starting from September 2024.
We are looking for 6 sessions per week.
GP Maternity Cover Job at PMG
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our innovative
and forward thinking practice of over 15,600 patients with sites in Tynemouth,
North Shields and Hadrian Park.
It may be time
for a change and you may want to work somewhere that makes you feel valued,
that allows you to expand your GP career, be flexible with your sessions and
accrue extra holiday to make sure you can get that work life balance right.
If any of these apply to you
or you would like further information about our practice values or to meet the
team first then get in touch!
Interviews dates: 26th / 27th June 2024.
Main duties of the job
The GP is responsible for providing medical care
and services to the practice population, managing a clinical caseload and
dealing with a diverse range of health needs.
This will include, but is not limited to, surgery and
telephone consultations, home visits, administration, complying with the
practices contracts (GMS/PMS/enhanced services), and the education and
training of junior/trainee clinical staff.
Full job description on request
About us
What we offer at Priory Medical Group:
Support and CPD:
Nominated GP mentor with protected time for a monthly catch up
Weekly in house clinical meetings for patient queries/discussion
Monthly education programme
Quarterly whole practice Time Out sessions
Training practice with registrars, foundation doctors, medical students and nursing students.
Career development:
Portfolio careers encouraged, we have University tutors, ICB board members and GPSIs
Minor Surgery and Family Planning clinics
Active member of PCN with close working arrangements with neighbouring practices
Research interests encouraged
GP workload:
13 appointments per session (10 minute appointments)
Flexible start and finish times
Low visiting rate
Well protected and infrequent on call days
Multi-disciplinary approach to General Practice:
Extremely efficient in house pharmacy team with pharmacists and technicians dealing with hospital discharges and medication changes
First contact physiotherapists, Mental health nurses, and Physician Associates working alongside GP team
Salary and Holiday:
Competitive, indemnity included
6 weeks standard annual leave (pro rata)
Additional week of flexible CPD time (pro rata)
Contact Natalie Bourke (Operations Manager) for further information - natalie.bourke1@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
The salaried GP is responsible for providing medical care and services to the practice population, managing a clinical caseload and dealing with a diverse range of health needs.
This will include, but is not limited to, surgery and telephone consultations, home visits, administration, complying with the practices contracts (GMS/PMS/enhanced services), and the education and training of junior/trainee clinical staff.
Key responsibilities clinical
Caring for patients
- Practise evidence-based medicine, in line with national and locally agreed guidelines
- Conduct patient consultations during the practices clinical appointment hours
- Undertake duty and out-of-hours consultations as required, on a rota basis
- Triage patients presenting to the practice in person and by telephone
- Conduct telephone consultations and home visits as appropriate
- Check and sign repeat prescription requests
- Check, manage and process patient test results
- Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines
- Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional interventions as appropriate
- Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems
- Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing advice, generally encouraging patients to follow a healthy lifestyle
- Carry out patient testing and screening as required
- Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients health needs
Communication with patients
- Use communication that is appropriate to the situation, including:
- Communicating sensitively with patients and carers when delivering bad news
- Establishing appropriate communication methods to suit patients and carers level of understanding, cultural/language needs, and preferred communication method
- Anticipating and overcoming barriers to communication, seeking support from other staff members where necessary
- Use appropriate communication skills and style to make patients aware of risk, to obtain consent where necessary, and to ensure patients comply with treatment
Delivering high-quality services
- Provide services to the practices patient population to the highest possible standard, in line with competencies and professional code of conduct
- Monitor and maintain the standard of care provided, taking appropriate action if standards are not met, through self- and peer-review, benchmarking and evaluation
- Undertake clinical governance and clinical audit activities to ensure the continual improvement of service delivery
- Participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant events, and other shared learning activities within a structured framework
- Support and mentor staff in training to ensure they deliver the highest standards of care
- Support the performance of team members and collaborate in improving the quality of healthcare and service provision, in line with local and national policy and strategy
- Work within the practices legal framework for identifying vulnerable patients and applying policies relating to treatment of vulnerable patients
Key responsibilities non-clinical
Practice-related duties
- Process medical reports, referrals and correspondence
- Record and collect data for audit purposes
- Make timely, clear, computer-based records of consultations and contact with patients
- Maintain administrative records relating to the practice contract, enhanced services and QOF
- Contribute to providing a supportive environment for other staff through informal catch-ups and contact
- Attend and contribute to in-house meetings, including clinical, educational/training-related and administrative meetings
- Attend meetings and events held by external agencies and stakeholders
- Contribute to teaching and training clinical staff as appropriate
Personal and professional development
- Comply with the GMC Code of Conduct
- Prepare for and complete annual external appraisals
- Prepare for and complete revalidation process
- Act as a mentor and positive role model to students and junior members of staff, sharing information and good practice
- Prioritise own workload and collaborate effectively with others to prioritise team and practice workload
- Keep a portfolio and potentially develop a special interest
- Undertake training as required to ensure competencies for delivering all responsibilities, to meet personal, statutory and practice education and learning needs, including keeping records of learning, reflection, complaints and feedback
- Keep up to date with current evidence-based approaches to patient care and service delivery, in line with NICE and the National Service Framework
- Undertake and contribute to education activities, such as reviewing significant events, clinical audit, protected learning time, video analysis of consultations, etc
- Contribute to education and training of trainee clinical staff and students
Other important aspects of the role
Maintaining confidentiality
The salaried GP will, as an integral part of and in the course of carrying out his/her role, have access to confidential and sometimes sensitive information relating to patients, carers and family members, as well as similar information about colleagues. The salaried GP will also have access to confidential commercial information about the practice and its business.
All such information, in whatever format and howsoever made available, must be treated with the strictest confidence. All such information held both within and outside of the practice will be shared only as necessary, and in accordance with the practices confidentiality/data-sharing policies, and in line with data protection legislation and the Freedom of Information Act.
Equality and diversity
The salaried GP will comply with the practices own equality and diversity policy, and legislation relating to equality and diversity, including (but not limited to):
- Recognising the rights of patients, carers, family members and colleagues, and respecting their needs, beliefs, privacy and dignity
- Not discriminating against patients, carers, family members or colleagues on the grounds of any of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 (or its amendments or later legislation)
- Supporting people who need help understanding and exercising their rights
- Acting as a role model in relation to promoting equality, diversity and non-discriminatory practices
- Identifying discriminatory practices and patterns of discrimination, taking appropriate action to tackle it, and instead promoting equality
- Complying with, promoting and evaluating chaperoning policies
- Recognising and promoting the right of patients to choose their care provider, and to participate in or refuse care
Job description
Job responsibilities
The salaried GP is responsible for providing medical care and services to the practice population, managing a clinical caseload and dealing with a diverse range of health needs.
This will include, but is not limited to, surgery and telephone consultations, home visits, administration, complying with the practices contracts (GMS/PMS/enhanced services), and the education and training of junior/trainee clinical staff.
Key responsibilities clinical
Caring for patients
- Practise evidence-based medicine, in line with national and locally agreed guidelines
- Conduct patient consultations during the practices clinical appointment hours
- Undertake duty and out-of-hours consultations as required, on a rota basis
- Triage patients presenting to the practice in person and by telephone
- Conduct telephone consultations and home visits as appropriate
- Check and sign repeat prescription requests
- Check, manage and process patient test results
- Prescribe in line with local and national guidelines
- Refer patients to secondary/urgent care and additional interventions as appropriate
- Manage long-term conditions and patients with complex problems
- Promote healthy living strategies and give health and wellbeing advice, generally encouraging patients to follow a healthy lifestyle
- Carry out patient testing and screening as required
- Make autonomous clinical decisions relating to patients health needs
Communication with patients
- Use communication that is appropriate to the situation, including:
- Communicating sensitively with patients and carers when delivering bad news
- Establishing appropriate communication methods to suit patients and carers level of understanding, cultural/language needs, and preferred communication method
- Anticipating and overcoming barriers to communication, seeking support from other staff members where necessary
- Use appropriate communication skills and style to make patients aware of risk, to obtain consent where necessary, and to ensure patients comply with treatment
Delivering high-quality services
- Provide services to the practices patient population to the highest possible standard, in line with competencies and professional code of conduct
- Monitor and maintain the standard of care provided, taking appropriate action if standards are not met, through self- and peer-review, benchmarking and evaluation
- Undertake clinical governance and clinical audit activities to ensure the continual improvement of service delivery
- Participate in reviewing and responding to complaints, significant events, and other shared learning activities within a structured framework
- Support and mentor staff in training to ensure they deliver the highest standards of care
- Support the performance of team members and collaborate in improving the quality of healthcare and service provision, in line with local and national policy and strategy
- Work within the practices legal framework for identifying vulnerable patients and applying policies relating to treatment of vulnerable patients
Key responsibilities non-clinical
Practice-related duties
- Process medical reports, referrals and correspondence
- Record and collect data for audit purposes
- Make timely, clear, computer-based records of consultations and contact with patients
- Maintain administrative records relating to the practice contract, enhanced services and QOF
- Contribute to providing a supportive environment for other staff through informal catch-ups and contact
- Attend and contribute to in-house meetings, including clinical, educational/training-related and administrative meetings
- Attend meetings and events held by external agencies and stakeholders
- Contribute to teaching and training clinical staff as appropriate
Personal and professional development
- Comply with the GMC Code of Conduct
- Prepare for and complete annual external appraisals
- Prepare for and complete revalidation process
- Act as a mentor and positive role model to students and junior members of staff, sharing information and good practice
- Prioritise own workload and collaborate effectively with others to prioritise team and practice workload
- Keep a portfolio and potentially develop a special interest
- Undertake training as required to ensure competencies for delivering all responsibilities, to meet personal, statutory and practice education and learning needs, including keeping records of learning, reflection, complaints and feedback
- Keep up to date with current evidence-based approaches to patient care and service delivery, in line with NICE and the National Service Framework
- Undertake and contribute to education activities, such as reviewing significant events, clinical audit, protected learning time, video analysis of consultations, etc
- Contribute to education and training of trainee clinical staff and students
Other important aspects of the role
Maintaining confidentiality
The salaried GP will, as an integral part of and in the course of carrying out his/her role, have access to confidential and sometimes sensitive information relating to patients, carers and family members, as well as similar information about colleagues. The salaried GP will also have access to confidential commercial information about the practice and its business.
All such information, in whatever format and howsoever made available, must be treated with the strictest confidence. All such information held both within and outside of the practice will be shared only as necessary, and in accordance with the practices confidentiality/data-sharing policies, and in line with data protection legislation and the Freedom of Information Act.
Equality and diversity
The salaried GP will comply with the practices own equality and diversity policy, and legislation relating to equality and diversity, including (but not limited to):
- Recognising the rights of patients, carers, family members and colleagues, and respecting their needs, beliefs, privacy and dignity
- Not discriminating against patients, carers, family members or colleagues on the grounds of any of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 (or its amendments or later legislation)
- Supporting people who need help understanding and exercising their rights
- Acting as a role model in relation to promoting equality, diversity and non-discriminatory practices
- Identifying discriminatory practices and patterns of discrimination, taking appropriate action to tackle it, and instead promoting equality
- Complying with, promoting and evaluating chaperoning policies
- Recognising and promoting the right of patients to choose their care provider, and to participate in or refuse care
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Leadership qualifications
- Teaching qualifications
- Further degrees
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Leadership qualifications
- Teaching qualifications
- Further degrees
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).