Salaried GP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role summary: The post-holder will manage a patient caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Main purpose of the role: To support the  GP partners in the Practice to manage a busy, interesting clinical caseload. The appointee will also have the opportunity to take part in leading on key disease areas (monitoring trends in treatment, staff training and prescribing) and assist in developing appropriate healthcare services for a diverse suburban patient list; Including Directed Enhanced Services commissioning, patient participation and health promotion.

The following list serves to illustrate the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties. You will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by the development of this role as the practice develops, and the overall business objectives of the practice change.

Clinical responsibilities:

· 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, referrals 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.

· 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.

· 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.

· Ensuring that all work carried out which carries a private fee is properly recouped and accounted for; eg. Medical Reports, Insurance reports, private letters to 3rd Parties etc.

· 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 with the Practice:

· 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 accurate Read-Coding of patient data.

· Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality

· In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

· In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

· Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

· Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.

· Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.

· Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.

· Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.

· Reporting potential risks identified.

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

· Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.

· Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.

· Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

· Participation in a Practice based annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.

· Maintaining skills and knowledge for CPD and accreditation via the annual GP appraisal process.

· Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

· Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.

· Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.

· Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance.

· Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patient’s needs.

· Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

· Communicate effectively with other team members.

· Communicate effectively with patients and carers.

· Recognise peoples’ needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the planning and implementation of services

The post-holder will:

· Apply practice policies, standards and guidance.

· Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect their own work.

· Participate in clinical audits when requested or where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as part if a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to work with limited supervision.
• Understanding of the pressures faced by GPs and healthcare teams.
• Willingness to contribute to and participate in a peer support group.
• Current registration with the GMC and appropriate representation with a recognised medical defence organisation.
• IT proficient and familiarity with primary care clinical. Familiarity in using the Microsoft suite of programmes.
• Proven ability to handle a busy and varied primary care case load.
• Proven ability to offer support within a clinical team and share learning points in Practice meetings.
• Ability to draft cogent, error-free letters and reports in a timely manner.
• A good understanding of GMS contracting requirements and the operation of the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF).

Desirable

• Experience and an interest in academic research and/ or medical education within a primary care setting
• Experience and an interest in either minor surgery osteoporosis healthcare of the elderly or dementia

Experience

Essential

• The post-holder should have an interest and enthusiasm in developing their career in primary health care and general practice, in addition to an interest in continuing professional development. Specifically, the appointee will demonstrate the following qualities:
• A vocationally trained and accredited GP.
• A good knowledge of and interest in general practice and primary care in an urban or suburban setting.
• Initiative, creativity and motivation.
• Have a collegial team spirit and feel comfortable in a strongly multidisciplinary team environment.
• Able to take a consultative approach to their work, appropriately involving relevant people.
• A proven interest in a particular disease area (e.g. diabetes) and the willingness to take a leadership role on this particular issue.
• A good working knowledge and interest in national primary care strategies and ideas on how to implement these for the development of the Practice.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Woodlands Surgery

Address

2 Woodlands Walk

Greenwich

SE10 9UB

Employer's website

https://www.woodlands-charlton-surgeries.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)