Salaried GP/Partner

Pennine Drive Surgery

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Job summary

Come and join our friendly team at Pennine Drive Surgery, located close to Golders Green. We are an established and well run training Practice. We provide high quality patient centred care within a close working team. Previous registrars who have been with us have rated us very highly. We are looking to offer 6 sessions per week to include all day Monday, Tuesday & Friday. Some of the days may be negotiable. We are 4 partners in property owned premises. We have approximately 9000 patients. We have a close working relationship with our local pharmacy. We use EMIS, AccuRx, Docman 10, and have a consistently high QOF achievement. We are rated good by CQC. In addition, we run diabetic clinics, minor surgery, joint injections, coil and implant clinics. 

Main duties of the job

Main duties involve consulting with patients via telephone consultations and face to face . We provide clinics for chronic disease management and we have weekly clinical meetings. We are active PCN members where we have access to the full complement of staff employed within our PCN including First Care Practitioners, Social Prescribers, Health & Wellbeing Adviser, Clinical Pharmacist and Dietician Our team consists of 4 GPs, an F2 doctor, a highly trained clinical pharmacist, nurses, HCA, administrative staff who use a care navigation system to direct patients to appropriate appointments. We offer 6 weeks annual leave, 1 week study leave pro rata and cover defence costs. We are committed to supporting personal and professional development and offer mentoring. This post may be well suited to someone looking to develop teaching and training with a view to becoming a GP.

About us

We have an excellent team of both clinical and non clinical staff. We are patient centred and try and enhance the patient experience. We encourage diversity and our patient cohort is a mixture of different demographics and offer specialist clinics. 

We liaise well with our PCN and are preparing for working with the PCN as a cohesive team.

 

Date posted

08 August 2022

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Includes indemnity

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A5335-22-2020

Job locations

8 Pennine Drive

London

NW2 1PA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Pennine Drive Surgery

Job Plan for Salaried GP

The job plan is the document that translates expectations of employee and employer into a working schedule. It ensures that the post delivers and its aims and the requirements of the contract of employment are met.It is essential to the practice that each person has the right skills for the role and has the ability to work as an effective person within our team. We regard ourselves as a friendly practice in which every member ofthe team is important and receives due respect regardless of position.

It is our common aim to provide as efficient and professional service to all our patients in a friendly manner in pleasant surroundings.

Duties and Responsibilities

 The duties of the post are to provide a full range of general medical services as contained within the National Health Services (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will include domiciliary visits as deemed appropriate.

· The post holder is expected to support the partners of Pennine Drive Surgery in providing all services outlined in the GMS Contract and also in the aims and objectives of the Practice.

· The post holder is expected to support and input into the aims of the practice in areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by the practice. Your performance in each area will be monitored and referrals may be re-routed if appropriate.

 The post holder is encouraged to utilise and develop any skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as minor operations, child health surveillance, family planning training if approved by the NHS England/CCG. This will be subject to presentation of the appropriate certificates and update of relevant courses. The post holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical records at all times. Full involvement in any practice training and on-going requirements of our status as a paper light practice is expected.  The post holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of paperwork.

1. Review of Plan

The Job Plan will be reviewed after 3, 6 and 9 months of employment, and will be developed collaboratively between the employer and employee. After this time it will be subject to annual review, or when there are any significant changes to the work pattern suggested by either party.

2. Scheduling in the Job Plan:

(a) Clinical duties: You are contracted to provide 6 sessions each week which will be all day Monday, Tuesday, and Friday normally between the hours of 9.00 am and 18.30 hours

(b) Increasingly the practice is called upon to provide Telephone/video /e consultations

(c) Appointments are scheduled at 10 minute intervals and you will provide face to face consultations in the morning and in the afternoon, plus you will take your share of extra consultations where demand is excessive. You will be expected to do 15 appointments in the morning and 15 in the afternoon.

(d) Home Visits You will be required to make home visits within the session time specified if you are on call and routine visits when required. If the visits exceed 3 when you are on call they are shared with the doctor on call in the afternoon.

(e) You will be expected to deal on a daily basis with telephone queries from patients or other health care professionals in your administrative time.

(f) Results

You are expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence related to your own allocated batch of patients and also those that you have generated yourself (investigations and queries related to your consultations).

(g) Clinical duties will include seeing people with acute conditions, on-going chronic conditions which will also include reviews based on the QOF.

(h)Repeat prescriptions

The afternoon on call doctor deals with all the repeat prescriptions and any late visit requests.

3. Administration/paperwork:

(a) The Partners believe that the job plan allows sufficient time in the job plan to complete all administrative duties related to your clinical work, recognising the fact that all practitioners work at different rates.

(b) Referrals should be completed on a daily basis in line with practice policy.

(c) Investigations and referrals should be completed and associated documentation dealt with within appropriate timescales.

(d) Results are normally communicated either electronically or by letter, you will be expected to action these on a daily basis for your own patients. You will also take a share in dealing with the daily post including correspondence addressed to you and to take a share of the workload for absent Partners.

(e) Reports: You will be expected to complete examinations and reports for the benefits agency and those expected under the GMS contract on patients known to you.

Additionally you may be expected to complete reports requested by other parties such as insurance companies,

OFSTED and employers.

(f) Computerised records: You will be expected to use appropriate processes for computerised record keeping including computerised clinical templates and protocols as well as ensuring that significant information as determined by the practice is recorded accurately e.g. all QOF domains. You will take part in reconciling information input periodically.

4. Primary care team meetings: formal or informal, essential to the delivery of team based care are held from time to time at the surgery and you will have a close working relationship with the District Nurses and the network teams.

5. Practice Meeting and Personal Development

The practice is committed to the highest standards of evidence based medicine and supporting colleagues in achieving this. You will be expected to participate using your Personal Development

Time, in discussions on clinical practice standards, developing practice protocols, mutual professional support for the individual practitioners, audit, significant event analysis, meetings with colleagues in the locality, District Nurses etc .Where these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical workload may be required.

6. You will be expected to provide support for any students or trainees in the practice when this has been approved by the Partners.

7. You may be expected to become responsible for particular areas of practice development.

8. You may be expected to be responsible for an area of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).

9. Your time table will be agreed and finalised upon your appointment.

10. Additional sessions: The Practice may agree with a practitioner that he or she should undertake work which is not specified in his or her Job Plan by way of additional nominal sessions or fractions thereof. The extra session(s) shall be remunerated on a pro rata basis to a full-time practitioners’ salary. Any such agreementshall be reviewed when required but at least annually and will be terminable at three months’ notice on either side.

11 Leave entitlements: as per contract document.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Pennine Drive Surgery

Job Plan for Salaried GP

The job plan is the document that translates expectations of employee and employer into a working schedule. It ensures that the post delivers and its aims and the requirements of the contract of employment are met.It is essential to the practice that each person has the right skills for the role and has the ability to work as an effective person within our team. We regard ourselves as a friendly practice in which every member ofthe team is important and receives due respect regardless of position.

It is our common aim to provide as efficient and professional service to all our patients in a friendly manner in pleasant surroundings.

Duties and Responsibilities

 The duties of the post are to provide a full range of general medical services as contained within the National Health Services (Primary Care) Act 1997 and which will include domiciliary visits as deemed appropriate.

· The post holder is expected to support the partners of Pennine Drive Surgery in providing all services outlined in the GMS Contract and also in the aims and objectives of the Practice.

· The post holder is expected to support and input into the aims of the practice in areas of clinical governance, good practice, quality outcomes framework, enhanced services, practice audit, referral review and any other improvement plans as determined by the practice. Your performance in each area will be monitored and referrals may be re-routed if appropriate.

 The post holder is encouraged to utilise and develop any skills for the improvement of services to patients, such as minor operations, child health surveillance, family planning training if approved by the NHS England/CCG. This will be subject to presentation of the appropriate certificates and update of relevant courses. The post holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of computerised clinical records at all times. Full involvement in any practice training and on-going requirements of our status as a paper light practice is expected.  The post holder is expected to maintain and keep good standards of paperwork.

1. Review of Plan

The Job Plan will be reviewed after 3, 6 and 9 months of employment, and will be developed collaboratively between the employer and employee. After this time it will be subject to annual review, or when there are any significant changes to the work pattern suggested by either party.

2. Scheduling in the Job Plan:

(a) Clinical duties: You are contracted to provide 6 sessions each week which will be all day Monday, Tuesday, and Friday normally between the hours of 9.00 am and 18.30 hours

(b) Increasingly the practice is called upon to provide Telephone/video /e consultations

(c) Appointments are scheduled at 10 minute intervals and you will provide face to face consultations in the morning and in the afternoon, plus you will take your share of extra consultations where demand is excessive. You will be expected to do 15 appointments in the morning and 15 in the afternoon.

(d) Home Visits You will be required to make home visits within the session time specified if you are on call and routine visits when required. If the visits exceed 3 when you are on call they are shared with the doctor on call in the afternoon.

(e) You will be expected to deal on a daily basis with telephone queries from patients or other health care professionals in your administrative time.

(f) Results

You are expected to follow up results, x-rays, correspondence related to your own allocated batch of patients and also those that you have generated yourself (investigations and queries related to your consultations).

(g) Clinical duties will include seeing people with acute conditions, on-going chronic conditions which will also include reviews based on the QOF.

(h)Repeat prescriptions

The afternoon on call doctor deals with all the repeat prescriptions and any late visit requests.

3. Administration/paperwork:

(a) The Partners believe that the job plan allows sufficient time in the job plan to complete all administrative duties related to your clinical work, recognising the fact that all practitioners work at different rates.

(b) Referrals should be completed on a daily basis in line with practice policy.

(c) Investigations and referrals should be completed and associated documentation dealt with within appropriate timescales.

(d) Results are normally communicated either electronically or by letter, you will be expected to action these on a daily basis for your own patients. You will also take a share in dealing with the daily post including correspondence addressed to you and to take a share of the workload for absent Partners.

(e) Reports: You will be expected to complete examinations and reports for the benefits agency and those expected under the GMS contract on patients known to you.

Additionally you may be expected to complete reports requested by other parties such as insurance companies,

OFSTED and employers.

(f) Computerised records: You will be expected to use appropriate processes for computerised record keeping including computerised clinical templates and protocols as well as ensuring that significant information as determined by the practice is recorded accurately e.g. all QOF domains. You will take part in reconciling information input periodically.

4. Primary care team meetings: formal or informal, essential to the delivery of team based care are held from time to time at the surgery and you will have a close working relationship with the District Nurses and the network teams.

5. Practice Meeting and Personal Development

The practice is committed to the highest standards of evidence based medicine and supporting colleagues in achieving this. You will be expected to participate using your Personal Development

Time, in discussions on clinical practice standards, developing practice protocols, mutual professional support for the individual practitioners, audit, significant event analysis, meetings with colleagues in the locality, District Nurses etc .Where these occur on an ad hoc basis, adjustments to clinical workload may be required.

6. You will be expected to provide support for any students or trainees in the practice when this has been approved by the Partners.

7. You may be expected to become responsible for particular areas of practice development.

8. You may be expected to be responsible for an area of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).

9. Your time table will be agreed and finalised upon your appointment.

10. Additional sessions: The Practice may agree with a practitioner that he or she should undertake work which is not specified in his or her Job Plan by way of additional nominal sessions or fractions thereof. The extra session(s) shall be remunerated on a pro rata basis to a full-time practitioners’ salary. Any such agreementshall be reviewed when required but at least annually and will be terminable at three months’ notice on either side.

11 Leave entitlements: as per contract document.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MBBS
  • MRCGP

Desirable

  • Previous experience with teaching and aspiring to be a trainer would be desirable but not essential.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of General Practice.

Desirable

  • Teaching skills
  • Good communication skills
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MBBS
  • MRCGP

Desirable

  • Previous experience with teaching and aspiring to be a trainer would be desirable but not essential.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of General Practice.

Desirable

  • Teaching skills
  • Good communication skills

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

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Additional information

UK Registration

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Employer details

Employer name

Pennine Drive Surgery

Address

8 Pennine Drive

London

NW2 1PA


Employer's website

https://www.penninedrivesurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Pennine Drive Surgery

Address

8 Pennine Drive

London

NW2 1PA


Employer's website

https://www.penninedrivesurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Manager

Sunita Miles

sunita.miles@nhs.net

07984911688

Date posted

08 August 2022

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Includes indemnity

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A5335-22-2020

Job locations

8 Pennine Drive

London

NW2 1PA


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