Job summary
You will be joining one of our small practices to work alongside our clinical and admin team to provide direct and indirect patient care to our registered patients. You will play a large role in working with the team to help them enact new initiatives and roll out innovation across the practice. There will be opportunities to further progress your career depending on the needs of the organisation and your own interests. You will always have the support of a GP partner when needed.
Main duties of the job
Provide best in class patient care to our patients in your clinics
Drive quality to improve the health of all registered patients along with colleagues
Support your colleagues and patients in rolling out and implementing new ways of working
Help us to foster a collaborative, ambitious and innovative culture so we can build the best primary care service in the UK; a service which exceeds the expectations for patients and clinicians
About us
We are a rapidly growing GP-led organisation with a mission to ensure that all patients have access to comprehensive, coordinated and continuous care within a sustainable primary care system.
We appreciate that our whole primary care system is struggling, which is causing a negative effect on patient care and staff happiness. We believe that we can turn this around by reimagining how primary care is delivered from the ground up by placing a focus on data insights, technology and clinical innovation.
Ultimately, we want to improve patient access, patient experience and health outcomes to significantly increase the quality of care for our patients. However, we can only build the best primary care service there is if staff are happy, empowered and supported within an excellent working environment.
If you believe that there are ways to drastically improve the way primary care is delivered for both patients and staff alike and you want to be a part of this; then we would love to hear from you and tell you more about our plans.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical responsibilities
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves 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 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
- Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
- 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 and standardised 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 following GMC guidelines.
Other responsibilities within the organisation
- 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.
Confidentiality
Health & safety
Equality and diversity
Personal/professional development
Quality
Communication
Contribution to the implementation of services
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical responsibilities
- In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves 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 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
- Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
- 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 and standardised 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 following GMC guidelines.
Other responsibilities within the organisation
- 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.
Confidentiality
Health & safety
Equality and diversity
Personal/professional development
Quality
Communication
Contribution to the implementation of services
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in general practice/primary care environment
- Have an understanding of the needs of the vulnerable groups of patients that are registered
- Maintain contemporaneous and accurate records in line with GMC guidance
Desirable
- Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality
- and Outcome Framework (QOF)
- Experience of supporting service change
- Experience of service improvement and quality initiatives.
Knowledge, skills and other requirements
Essential
- National Performers List Registration
- General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003
- Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983
- Satisfactory DBS report
- Evidence of commitment to ongoing personal & professional development
- Eligible to independently practice in the United Kingdom
- Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient population
Desirable
- Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary care
- Ability to develop and deliver evidence based care.
- Evidence of contributing to practice development and research in the clinical area.
- Ability to operate clinical IT systems e.g. SystmOne/Emis/Vision etc.
Qualifications
Essential
- Fully Qualified GP eligible to work in General Practice in the NHS
- MBBS or equivalent medical degree
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in general practice/primary care environment
- Have an understanding of the needs of the vulnerable groups of patients that are registered
- Maintain contemporaneous and accurate records in line with GMC guidance
Desirable
- Experience of working to achieve standards within the Quality
- and Outcome Framework (QOF)
- Experience of supporting service change
- Experience of service improvement and quality initiatives.
Knowledge, skills and other requirements
Essential
- National Performers List Registration
- General Practitioner Register under article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice Order 2003
- Not subject to suspension under section 41A of the Medical Act 1983
- Satisfactory DBS report
- Evidence of commitment to ongoing personal & professional development
- Eligible to independently practice in the United Kingdom
- Understand the health and social needs of a local practice patient population
Desirable
- Understanding of the current issues and challenges facing primary care
- Ability to develop and deliver evidence based care.
- Evidence of contributing to practice development and research in the clinical area.
- Ability to operate clinical IT systems e.g. SystmOne/Emis/Vision etc.
Qualifications
Essential
- Fully Qualified GP eligible to work in General Practice in the NHS
- MBBS or equivalent medical degree
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).