Job summary
We are a 9 Doctor
forward thinking training practice, seeking an enthusiastic individual to join
our committed multidiscipline team
We are currently
looking to offer a fixed term post for a salaried GP 3 days a week (6 sessions) from September 25 for Maternity
cover - for an expected 6 months duration.
We are situated in
modern premises with onsite pharmacy and ample parking and good commuting links
just off A470, 15 minutes from Cardiff, close to the modern housing
developments and facilities to the west of Caerphilly at the foot of Caerphilly
mountain.
We have a growing
list size (currently 10,000 patients) and a branch surgery in Senghenydd.
We are a teaching
practice (GP registrars, undergraduate doctors and pharmacists) so we are in a
good position to offer support to newly qualified GPs coming out of training.
Currently we use
EMISweb and are a paper light practice.
Please submit your CV to Andrew.langley@wales.nhs.uk . INITIAL ENQUIRIES WELCOME VIA PRACTICE
MANAGER ANDREW LANGLEY 02920 849380.
PLEASE VIEW OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PRACTICE
www.nantgarwroadmedicalcentre.wales.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
Clinical responsibilities:
- Undertaking a variety of duties including surgery
consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at
home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and associated work and correspondence in a timely fashion
- Making 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
- 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
- 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.
- The postholder will do a proportionate number of On calls
About us
We are situated in modern premises with onsite pharmacy and ample parking and good commuting links just off A470, 15 minutes from Cardiff, close to the modern housing developments and facilities to the west of Caerphilly at the foot of Caerphilly mountain.
We are a teaching practice with thee trainers (GP registrars and undergraduate students) so we are in a good position to offer support to newly qualified GPs coming out of training.
We have a growing
list size (currently 10,000 patients) and a branch surgery in Senghenydd.
Currently we use EMISweb and are a paper light practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary:
The
post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in
a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all
registered and temporary patients.
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 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
- 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.
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
- Contribution
towards practice evidence based audits, QOF, CEPP , NCN audits
- Deputising for
other partners during leave
- Sharing of house calls and paperwork
- Contributing to
the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
- Attending and
contributing to weekly partners
meetings, monthly clinical meetings, bimonthly staff/gp meetings,
Quarterly palliative care meetings. Attendance 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 implement and lead on a
full range of promotion and management their own and others health and safety
and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy,
the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control
policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited
to):
- Using personal security systems
within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Awareness of national standards of
infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual /
professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- Providing advice on the correct
and safe management of the specimens process including collection,
labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and
transport arrangements
- Correct personal use of Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others,
advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and
patients.
- Management of the full range of
infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary
circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)
- Hand hygiene standards for self
and others
- Managing directly all incidents of
accidental exposure
- Management and advice relating to
infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and
implementation of those protocols across the practice
- Active observation of current
working practices across the practice in relation to infection control,
cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed
and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as
appropriate to the responsible person
- Identifying the risks involved in
work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages
those risks across clinical and patient process
- Making effective use of training
to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of
others across the full range of infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring practice facilities and
equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is
made of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc, and that these are
sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of
facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager
- Safe management of sharps use,
storage and disposal
- Maintenance of own clean working environment
- Using appropriate infection
control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile,
and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective
action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting,
and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards
immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general
/ patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards /
risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming
responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness
across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible
managers
- Undertaking periodic infection
control training (minimum twice annually)
- Correct waste and instrument
management including handling, segregation, and container use
- Maintenance of sterile
environments
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 recognizes the importance of peoples 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 for PREP 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
an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility
for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- 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
- Contribute to the
effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and
making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Effectively
manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder
should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and
will strive to:
- Communicate
effectively with patients and other team members
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary:
The
post-holder will manage a caseload and deal with a wide range of health needs in
a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all
registered and temporary patients.
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 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
- 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.
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
- Contribution
towards practice evidence based audits, QOF, CEPP , NCN audits
- Deputising for
other partners during leave
- Sharing of house calls and paperwork
- Contributing to
the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
- Attending and
contributing to weekly partners
meetings, monthly clinical meetings, bimonthly staff/gp meetings,
Quarterly palliative care meetings. Attendance 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 implement and lead on a
full range of promotion and management their own and others health and safety
and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy,
the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control
policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited
to):
- Using personal security systems
within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Awareness of national standards of
infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual /
professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
- Providing advice on the correct
and safe management of the specimens process including collection,
labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and
transport arrangements
- Correct personal use of Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others,
advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and
patients.
- Management of the full range of
infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary
circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)
- Hand hygiene standards for self
and others
- Managing directly all incidents of
accidental exposure
- Management and advice relating to
infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and
implementation of those protocols across the practice
- Active observation of current
working practices across the practice in relation to infection control,
cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed
and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as
appropriate to the responsible person
- Identifying the risks involved in
work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages
those risks across clinical and patient process
- Making effective use of training
to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of
others across the full range of infection control and patient processes
- Monitoring practice facilities and
equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is
made of hand cleansing facilities, wipes etc, and that these are
sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of
facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager
- Safe management of sharps use,
storage and disposal
- Maintenance of own clean working environment
- Using appropriate infection
control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile,
and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective
action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting,
and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards
immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general
/ patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards /
risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming
responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness
across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible
managers
- Undertaking periodic infection
control training (minimum twice annually)
- Correct waste and instrument
management including handling, segregation, and container use
- Maintenance of sterile
environments
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 recognizes the importance of peoples 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 for PREP 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
an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility
for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- 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
- Contribute to the
effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and
making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Effectively
manage own time, workload and resources.
Communication:
The post-holder
should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and
will strive to:
- Communicate
effectively with patients and other team members
Person Specification
Qualifications and skills
Essential
- Appropriate qualifications
- Registration with GMC and locality performers list
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable
- Experience in EMISweb, WCCG, AccRx, GPTR
- Specific clinical interests which could enhance the patient care
Person Specification
Qualifications and skills
Essential
- Appropriate qualifications
- Registration with GMC and locality performers list
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable
- Experience in EMISweb, WCCG, AccRx, GPTR
- Specific clinical interests which could enhance the patient care
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).
